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How Scott Morrison was defeated in Australia

22 May 2022

6:00 PM

22 May 2022

6:00 PM

‘Scott Morrison is empathetic – without the “em”.’ Those words, spoken on Friday by the Labor party frontbencher Jason Clare, on a national breakfast programme, perfectly encapsulated how Scott Morrison was defeated in the Australian election on Saturday.

Morrison wasn’t saved by his economic management (this Friday Australia’s unemployment rate was confirmed as 3.9

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