Gillian Triggs Just Brutally Roasted Scott Morrison’s “Bizarre” Aussie Bloke Persona On ‘Q&A’
Eating a meat pie doesn't automatically make you a man of the people.
For the past few weeks, Scott Morrison and his media department have been doing everything they can to make him seem like a man of the people. He’s used words like “fair dinkum”. He rode on a bus (kind of). He ate a pie. You know, classic Aussie bloke stuff!!
Unfortunately, not everyone is buying ScoMo’s true blue routine. And on Monday night’s episode of Q&A, former Australian Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs casually tore it to shreds.
“This bizarre environment of different baseball caps and eating meat pies, I think Australians are simply underestimated by too many of our political leaders,” Triggs told the Q&A audience. “We have an Australian public [that is] educated, looking for some answers, and looking for leadership. And they’re not going to be fooled by a bus that the Prime Minister’s not actually travelling in, or pictures of him eating meat pies and talking to farmers with baseball caps. I think we’re much more sophisticated than that.”
Triggs also criticised the PM over his comments about the Bourke Street knife attack. Morrison said on Monday that the Muslim community in Australia needed to be more “proactive” in preventing terrorism, and that it was a “lame excuse” to blame the attacker’s mental health problems. But Triggs said those remarks were “unhelpful”.
“In so many of these instances of terrorist acts in Australia, designed to terrorise, they’ve been by people with profound mental disturbance and/or drug abuse, substance abuse of one kind or another,” Triggs said. “To ignore that reality is very foolish indeed.”
“Most importantly we need more support for those with mental illness … I think to ignore this phenomenon of mental illness fuelled by drug abuse, and to say it’s purely an ideological terrorist attack, is a very unhelpful comment because it diverts us from those kinds of inquiries that we need to make.”