Dumped Liberal MP Andrew Laming has accused Scott Morrison of making him a scapegoat for the Coalition government’s unpopularity among women, saying the former prime minister failed every gender test he ever encountered.
after she was sued by Laming over a series of tweets repeating the allegations.
“Potentially seeking a scapegoat when the story dropped, he then held that position to the end of his prime ministership, regardless of the subsequent evidence,” Laming writes.In hindsight, Laming says that voting for Peter Dutton in the 2018 leadership contest against Morrison was a “decision that would cost me big time”. He also says the fact that Morrison enjoyed a relative degree of stability during his prime ministership was “in no small part due to the team player nature of Peter Dutton”.
The divisive former MP writes that the “gender panic” during the Coalition’s final months in office was an “inescapable fog”, and Morrison had “clumsily invoked his family at the wrong times, so this escape route was firmly closed”.Dominic Lorrimer “After the Christine Holgate debacle, female corporate Australia had also walked. This gave, of all people, Grace Tame the final verdict. It was a marketing train wreck in every sense of the metaphor.”
“His panicked parliamentary apology seemed to pre-empt the legal proceedings, while his insistence he knew nothing at the time seemed implausible,” Laming writes.aborted late last yearLaming also writes that Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii during the bushfires heading into 2020 “detonated everything he had worked for”.
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