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Register Log in. My Profile points. Log out. New Games Most Popular Games. Adjust game screen size. Game controls. The person in charge of Tourism Australia at the time was Scott Morrison. If he had been analysed prior to the last election in the way a Labor politician might have been, we might have learnt this about him. You might think that might have been something he would have needed to explain before he got into parliament It seems he played quite dirty in getting his seat in parliament.

Morrison has spent much of this time in public life having no public persona. He was so unknown that he felt he needed to introduce himself to Australians once he had become PM — despite having been Treasurer and before that our immigration minister. But his lack of a public persona tells you a lot about the man. The author speculates that Morrison sees most of public life as a kind of game — hence the title — but perhaps a better title would have been The Act — since he seems to adopt the persona he feels best suits his various roles, none of which really reflect himself all that much.

There are quotes here where he ends interviews as Treasurer of Australia by incongruously saying 'Go the Sharkies' - his adopted team. I am deeply embarrassed that this didn't immediately end his career, but rather had the opposite effect. This is something played up in the book — how Morrison adopted this persona on becoming a politician, and added football and making curries for the family on the weekends as things that would identify him as a typical Australian bloke.

At one point, relatively early in his career, he was interviewed on a TV program on public television called Kitchen Cabinet. Basically, a politician chats with a journalist while making and eating a meal. Unsurprisingly, ScoMo made a curry - on-brand. He seems congenitally incapable of telling the truth. I mean, even if the truth would be easier and less damaging to him, he seems compelled to lie.

It is so extreme that the Labor Party recently ran with it in parliament for a whole sitting fortnight. And if he is not lying, he is dog-whistling to the right. Our media is dominated by Murdoch. If there is one thing we know for sure, Murdoch hates to lose. View all 44 comments. Nov 24, Andrew Carr rated it liked it.

A vivid portrait of a man set against a fuzzy background of a nation. While I don't read many of these kind of books anymore, I do rather enjoy them. Not least a good old fashioned mauling. A take behind the bike shed and break the kneecaps kind of political critique. Kelly is an original, relentless and incisive critique of Morrison, and the portrait he draws is compelling.

Australia's Prime Minister is a man so obsessed with politics that there's nothing there beyond the politics. Whatever offe A vivid portrait of a man set against a fuzzy background of a nation. Whatever offers tactical advantage is what proceeds, and whatever is needed to be done to get ahead is what is done. With no regrets or even consideration it could be any other way.

While reading this book, I couldn't help but be reminded of someone Kelly used to work for, Kevin Rudd. Neither Morrison or Rudd have a quote-unquote 'natural' affinity for the public. Both rely heavily on artificial ockerisms in their language to make up for it. Both have had to fake a personality in order to achieve what they want, and both are very good at knowing and delivering what their particular tribe wants. And both will ultimately leave a legacy of no real significance.

Being innovative or driving the national interest isn't in their DNA because that would mean going against the tribe and other than for momentary political advantage, not be the logical thing to do. I really enjoyed this book, but if the first third is compelling and powerful, the arguments in the second and third section feel slightly underdone.

Not wrong, but as somewhat 'flat', if I can borrow a term from Kelly's own critique. Two issues stand out First, there's a well known business book by Simon Sinek that argues people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. The left has endless proposals for 'what' they will do if they have power. The right has a very clear sense of 'why' they must have power. To the left's befuddlement, people actually want to buy that why.

Kelly is always concerned with the 'what' of politics would rushed legislation actually stop more needles in strawberries, who did the Medevac legislation actually apply to , and though he recognizes it in asides, rarely engages the why.

He implies that the what is reality, the why just marketing, but that's not right. Nor does it give the public enough credit. We all know politicians can't stop random idiots putting things in our food, but we may find it valuable to have a leader who speaks for us by saying 'this isn't on and we'll punish those who do', simply for the sake of saying so. It's not clear that serving the why is intrinsically wrong and as Sinek notes, those who primarily serve the what, struggle to attract loyal followers.

Second, Kelly is brave and right in saying that by electing such a man, we do need to think about the nature of the Australian public who put him there. He is right to say we can't just accept Donald Horne's implication that only the elites are to blame. Yet where the language about Morrison himself is both exact and original, the writing about the public becomes general, repeats itself including returning to Horne's own descriptions and far less playful. Kelly at one point notes that many left wing intellectuals found Morrison boring, and I can't help but fear he like other left wing intellectuals thinks much the same of the general public a point Judith Brett makes in her book on the Middle Class and Gideon Haigh observed in reviewing a recent QE.

As such, though the issue is an important one to raise, what we get is a somewhat one-sided picture of the public. A 'why are you not ashamed by X, Y and Z' insistence, without really grappling with why the public are not and might not need to be. Kelly implies he does not really understand why people could be proud of Australia and its history, but ends up using very European traditional standards Wars, great intellectual movements etc to compare it against.

Why should this be the standard? There's no attempt to see how others may 'balance' a word which appears in a Howard quote on this topic in the book but goes unremarked it, in a utilitarian fashion.

The real skill of George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens observed, was his 'power of facing'. That is not simply 'speaking truth to power', it was sometimes about speaking truth to the powerless. Orwell famously is the loyal socialist who wrote the best critique of communism, the man who lived with the 'down and out' but never saw them as angels. Kelly shows touches of this. Especially early on, he is able to offer three-dimensional portraits, and he is right to raise the question of the public's response and responsibility in our current malaise.

But these sections never feels as thought throug and well rounded as it could have been. I hope that Kelly does take up this theme in another book. One he has the time to really tease out why the public acts as it does, why it may not simply be 'turning away' from the issues as implied, but have moral justifications for its approach. Which is not to endorse, or say we should not change, but simply to say it's a question worth deeply understanding. Overall, this is a powerful and enjoyable knee-capping of a leader who deserves it.

View 2 comments. Nov 02, Todd Winther rated it it was amazing. Easily the best book about Australian politics in the 21st Century. Who is Scott Morrison? Nobody, not even him, knows. That says a lot about Morrison. It says even more about Australia and its decaying political culture, which began in with the blocking of Supply, and the subsequent double dissolution election of May of that year. And what does that say about an election in It will be fucking terrifying, whoever wins.

Nov 04, John Miller rated it it was amazing. This is a brilliant expose of what sustains Scott Morrison. Nov 13, Bill rated it it was amazing Shelves: biography , own , politics , history , australian. It is not a biography, and I find this refreshing. It has to be said, The Game is as much a polemic as a portrait.

Those who already oppose or dislike Morrison will find plenty to justify their views here. There are places where the book veers dangerously close to psychoanalysis by media. Federico Calchera. Pixel Portraits [32x32].

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