Martin Luther King used the cadences, phrasing and devices of a Christian Baptist pastor to deliver soaring rhetoric; Scott Morrison took his sky pilot familiarity to the National Press Club on Tuesday for as platitudinous and dulling a sermon as you’re likely to hear.
Along the way he outbid his Defence Minister in moving closer to declaring war on China, wished he had militarised vaccines from the outset, unveiled his weaponry for the election campaign he’s already fighting (the trusty Lee-Enfield .303), threw the Therapeutic Goods Administration under the tank tracks, and was taken down by Laura Tingle PSYOPS – mistaking the surface question for the substance, the standard experience of university psychology experiments.
