Pauline Hanson is out to obliterate the Coalition. These two MPs are standing up to her
#NikiSavva
… Agree with them or not, they are effective communicators. They command attention. They also seem real – skills essential to building a new base.
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The issue internally with Hastie wasn’t only that what he said differed from his leader and frontbench colleagues, but that he said it better. Hastie is both interesting and unpredictable.
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“Morrison, … has a habit of allowing problems to become crises before mishandling them…”
Still processing Niki Savva’s book Earthquake & that description has always appealed, even though just the mention of Morrison*** feels like revisiting a nightmare…
*** briefly Australian Prime Minister, a real nasty pasty
Here’s another gem by Niki that sums up Morrison: “So many slogans, so little substance. A headline searching for a story.”
(pp 15, 37)
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Think this could be one of those aftershocks Niki Savva mentions in her book Earthquake, where she says: “In 2025, the election was a seven-plus for the damage it inflicted on the Liberal Party, which now teeters precariously on the edge of an abyss, without a harness, without a safety net, without a coherent plan to secure its survival.
“And the aftershocks continue.”
Prescient really. 🤔
Finished reading Earthquake by Niki Savva. A book about politics (specifically the ‘surprise’ losses by conservatives of the last 2 Australian elections), full of quotable quotes. From the Introduction (p 3):
“Journalists… seldom welcome being told how to do their jobs better, especially if they are in the business of dividing, not informing, or if they are loathe to deliver tough messages to leaders they like or their owners support. Blindly partisan media—particularly Sky After Dark and the Murdoch Press—create or nurture the fatal flaws that eventually destroy the very people they are desperate to promote. Along the way they wreck their own credibility. Covering up for conservatives—or anybody else—ensures that everyone loses. Including and especially Australians.”
#NikiSavva opines on the tool that is #Albo
1st link will allow you to read paywalled 2nd link.
The response from the Liberal hard right to the threat of a schism which 2022 portended has been a redoubling of efforts to purge moderates from the party by stripping them of their pre-selections. It won’t win the teal seats back.
Whether you like her or not, Niki Savva is an excellent writer.
She’s taken a comment made by Morrison in a poor effort to explain his pathetic behaviour..”I can be a bit of a bulldozer”
..& turned it into the title of her new book “Bulldozed”.. & well & truly decimated him.
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