These days have shown us once again who we are: so patient, so obedient. We do what we’re told. The order goes out to empty the district and the district hits the road. Of course there are holdouts. Tempers flare. How many times have we heard that beep on the radio that hides a heartfelt “Fuck!”
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| The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, discusses the government’s response to the bushfire crisis at Parliament House |
We wait in the smoke for hours for a place on the boat, for a sandwich, to get past the next roadblock. Queues for Woolworths and Caltex are so orderly. We don’t need to be told, as the prime minister told us again today: “Stay patient.” We do.
Disappointment came early with the sight of David Elliott, the widely disliked New South Wales emergency services minister, back from his European holidays and back on the job. For a time at his premier’s press conference all that could be seen of him was an unhappy face over a gut hanging out of his trousers. Then he had his moment: “I came to step up not step down.”
Read the story from The Guardian by David Marr - “PM tries to present himself as a leader reborn – but you just can’t take the marketing out of Scotty.”
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