Scott Morrison brings coal to question time: what fresh idiocy is this? | Katharine Murphy

What a bunch of clowns, hamming it up - while out in the real world an ominous and oppressive heat just won't let up

There is no way you can write the sentence, "The treasurer of Australia, Scott Morrison, came to question time with a lump of coal on Thursday," and have that sentence seem anything other than the ravings of a psychedelic trip, so let's just say it and be done with it.

Scott Morrison brought coal into the House of Representatives. A nice big hunk of black coal, kindly supplied by the Minerals Council of Australia.