Australian (interim) Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison speaks like the failed advertising industry executive that he is,
By now his favourite slogans and their meanings are becoming obvious,,,,,,
The New Daily, 21 October 2018:
“We believe in a fair go
for those who have a go.” (Those making money deserve to make more money.)
“We believe that the
best form of welfare is to have a job.” (Welfare should be cut back.)
“We believe it is every
Australian’s duty to make a contribution and not take a contribution.”
(Everyone on social welfare is a bludger – a particularly telling twisting of
John F. Kennedy’s “don’t ask what your country can do for you, but what you can
do for your country”.)
“And we believe this,
you don’t rise (sic) people up by bringing others down.” (Taxation is bad and
progressive taxation is particularly evil.)
Add to these the following:
"You don't get children off Nauru by putting more children on Nauru through weaker border protection policies," (I will not let the children on Nauru leave to resettle elsewhere with their
families, even though resettlement in third countries is one of the aims of Australia's offshore detention policy)
"[I want] to see how we can get greater investment in what I call 'fair dinkum power'; that’sthe stuff that works when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’tblow." (let’s
ignore the science behind renewable energy and pretend that other OECD countries
haven’t successfully integrated high levels of renewable energy into their
national power grids)
