As he rails against activism, Scott Morrison is turning a bit sinister, a bit threatening | Katharine Murphy

The government the PM leads finds activism inconvenient, but it is the same government that has sparked the activism

It takes some chutzpah to stand up with a straight face and deliver a speech foreshadowing a government crackdown on protest activity while in the same breath declaring that a new insidious form of progressivism is intent on denying the liberties of Australians.

But Scott Morrison has never lacked confidence.