Morrison dancing

A former prime minister takes the Royal Commission for a spin around his very slippery dance floor

“Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.”

― Sir Thomas Beecham

For my sins—and how great they must be—I watched former-prime-minister-and-still-a-dick, Scott Morrison, testify before the Royal Commission into the robodebt affair, and it is fair to say my opinion of him was not enhanced.

He was rude, dismissive, misleading, smug, and fifty shades of oh-my-god-just-shut-the-fuck-up, and although he did his best to avoid answering questions directly, he nonetheless provided ample evidence of the wisdom Australian voters displayed in removing him from office on 21 May 2022 (and destroying his party for good measure).

Did I mention, rude, dismissive, smug….?

Scotty from Marketing thinks he is the smartest person in any room he happens to be in, and I am sure—it was written all over his smirking, whey-grey, misfired pastry of a face—that he thought he was running circles around counsel, the infinitely patient Justin Greggery KC, and even the Royal Commissioner herself, Catherine Hol…