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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Lewis

Scott Morrison’s China gambit is a Hail Mary from a flailing leader trying to galvanise fear

‘We know Scott Morrison is at heart a marketeer, testing messages on the run and iterating them until they stick.’
‘We know Scott Morrison is at heart a marketeer, testing messages on the run and iterating them until they stick.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Scott Morrison’s efforts to politicise Australia’s complex relationship with China seems to be further soiling his own flagging reputation.

Like a bull in the proverbial, he has spent the past fortnight bombarding the airwaves with hastily googled dossiers and cold war-era panics to suggest an Albanese government would become an antipodean branch office of the Beijing Politburo.

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