Scott Morrison’s China gambit is a Hail Mary from a flailing leader trying to galvanise fear | Peter Lewis
by Peter Lewis from World news | The Guardian on (#5WCGW)
The majority of Australians support a position which is the polar opposite to the government's current tub-thumping on national security
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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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