Images from Twitter and The New Daily
By Situation Theatre 26/12/2019. Updated 15/3/2020.
Bill Shorten had his flaws but at least malignant narcissism wasn’t one of them.
In April 2006, the Beaconsfield gold mine collapsed, trapping miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell. National Secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union at the time, Bill Shorten, visited the site every day until Webb and Russell were home safe.
On 25th April 2006, the Beaconsfield mine collapsed.
— Stephen 🎄 (@TheAviator1992) April 11, 2019
Not one Liberal minister visited the site, but this man did. And he stayed every day until Brant Webb and Todd Russell went home safe.
Bill Shorten has had my complete admiration ever since. #AusPol #AusVotes #ITrustBill pic.twitter.com/Nkrxwytuy3
Over the summer, Australia faced a nationwide bushfire emergency which cost 33 lives, 2779 homes, 17M hectares, and over 1 billion animals. Prime Minister at the time, Scott Morrison, visited Hawaii and stayed there every day until Twitter dragged him home a few hours early.
Since then, Scott has made up for it with flawless management of the coronavirus crisis. He waited 51 days after the first Australian case was detected to launch a public education campaign, sent Peter Dutton to personally contract the virus from the United States, and set an example for the nation by assuming God would protect him, refusing to get himself tested despite potential exposure.
In fairness to all the media outlets who campaigned for a Morrison victory, apart from being fired from Tourism Australia, his association with a defamatory smear campaign against a Lebanese-Australian from whom he stole the seat of Cook, many years of refugee torture, climate sabotage, bank protection, union and ABC attacks, tax cuts for the rich and welfare and service cuts and for everyone else, along with serial lies and a painfully fraudulent persona to cover it all up, there was no way of knowing back in May that the quiet Hawaiian might not be the best man for the job of Australian Prime Minister.
