A former Liberal media adviser assesses the Morrisons’ 60 Minutes interview - and the political value of the Prime Minister giving air time to his wife.
It was a strategy that worked at the last election for the then new Prime Minister - to remind voters he was a person. But will it work this time?
The Prime Minister’s wife told 60 Minutes she wanted her own daughters to become fierce and independent but “be polite and have manners”,as she labelled Ms Tame’s refusal to smile at the couple “a little bit disappointing”.
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins say too little has changed despite a year of national conversations about violence against women and child sexual abuse.
The appearance of two young women impatient for change at the National Press Club on Wednesday felt like a true shift.
The former federal parliamentary staffer says she was disappointed by Scott Morrison’s response to her allegation of rape last year because she didn’t want his sympathy as a father,but action from him as the Prime Minister.
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins have unlocked a movement that has inspired women all over the country to stand up against abuse in all its forms.
The image of the Prime Minister’s hands massaging a young woman’s head,while he quipped about having a gossip,stirred a visceral reaction in thousands of us,including me. And it wasn’t good.
Why paint women as passive in order to have a public conversation about the social pressures placed upon them to appease the male ego?
Men are not entitled to our smiling niceness simply because they are men.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says outgoing Australian of the Year Grace Tame is doing important work for sexual assault victims as he brushed off questions about their meeting.