Scott Morrison's election loss was driven in part by his inability to act on women's anger
Scott Morrison can't say he wasn't warned that women were angry. But Scott Morrison – who received God knows how many final warnings from Australian women over the past year but chose every time to continue bulldozing happily along — seems to have achieved something novel, having unmistakably on Saturday night received a John Deere letter. "Women did not see their concerns and interests reflected in a party led by Scott Morrison in coalition with Barnaby Joyce," said Julie Bishop on the Nine network on Saturday night. The problem wasn't hard to spot Scott Morrison, feted within his party as a tactical campaign genius, missed chance after chance to notice what was going on with Australian women. I don't know, but this little frolic — Morrison's missed opportunity The truly astounding part of this story is that there were good things Scott Morrison could have said to women.
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