Mark Ludlow writing for The Australian Financial News
tells us that "Peter Dutton's name has been thrown
around as a future party leader and PM. But the
thought of the hard-liner former Queensland police
officer and conservative stalwart being a serious
contender for the nation's top job is usually scoffed
at by the left and some political commentators as
wishful thinking by disgruntled backbenchers..."
(Who were unhappy with Malcolm Turnbull).

Still you never know. He's now been appointed to the
new cabinet as Minister of Defence - and he could
do an excellent job in that portfolio. You never
know. Others are tipping Josh Frydenberg as Morrison's
successor. He's a bit young and inexperienced yet.
But you never know. As I stated earlier predicting
anything in politics is risky at the best of times.

ScoMo seems to be out o this depth. What do you reckon the odds are of him going the same way as Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull before the next election?

Hi Aidan,

Anything can happen in politics I guess.

It all depends how much support the other
guys have within the party. At this time
who knows? If Morrison can pull a rabbit
out of the hat - anything is possible.
I'd say that Dutton is a strong contender.

Pragmatic is the best word to describe Scott Morrison; he does what he thinks is best for him at the time. Morrison has no values, no fighting for anything, including the traditional innocent until proven guilty - see Holgate, Porter, army veterans and Dyson Hayden for starters. He won't fight the culture wars - woke is OK. If throwing you under a bus looks like a winner for Scott, under the bus you go.

Morrison will lead the Coalition to the next election. The majority of Liberal MP's realise Dutton, like Abbott before him, is a loose cannon, unpredictable on most issues. I agree with ttbn, "he (Scotty from marketing) does what he thinks is best for him at the time", very much a smoke and mirrors man, his leadership on issues is questionable, bushfires, women, economy, the pandemic, but he still appears as relatively a safe pair of hands, which makes for the devil you know, is better than the devil you don't.

ABC reporter remarked on the "coal loving" in Industry & the ABC presenter then followed by saying that the PM "admits" the effects of emission & finally agreed to go with the 2050 targets.
To imply that the PM did not previously accept the effects of pollution is nothing short of character maligning & to imply that industry is coal loving is nothing short of the utmost degree of stupidity !
What these two Taxpayer exploiting Parasites failed to say & understand is that without an alternative, what is the alternative ?
Is being an indoctrinated git a prerequisite to join the ABC ?