“Set myself on fire and the world will come to watch me burn.” When 18th-century English cleric John Wesley uttered these words, he could hardly have imagined the Morrison government’s missteps of these past few weeks.
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| Climate change protesters rally against Scott Morrison's response to the bushfire crisis in Sydney on Friday |
The Newspoll on Monday that had the PM’s satisfaction rating dip 11 points is not explained by the city dwellers anxious about climate inaction. It could be argued Morrison has misunderstood the very political pendulum that swung his government into office last May.
Self-dealing among political elites and their preoccupation with issues of little resonance to the local citizen has crushed the traditional left-right crusade. Look no further than the Trump presidency and the Brexit-inspired Boris triumph to see a politics now won on feelings of neglect and disempowerment.
Read the story from The Age by Tom Akhurst - “Fires could melt PM's anti-establishment vote back into the earth.”
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