Scott morrison biography book
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Review: Morrison’s New Book is Perfect (for playing fuckwit bingo)
Scott Morrison’s new book ‘Plans for Your Good’ hit the shelves last week and The Chaser’s John Delmenico was one of the few hundred people who actually bought a copy.
Scott Morrison’s book describes itself as “less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement.” Which seems to mean that it was one part autobiography, one part sermon and many parts really fucking boring.
The book is ambitious in its aim: a guide on self reflection from a man who has never done any self reflection. A less self-assured man may have blushed at such lofty goals. What follows is his attempt to create a coherent story about his career, despite spending his entire career struggling to put together a coherent sentence. What emerges is the literary equivalent of an undercooked chicken curry.
That is not to say there is nothing to commend Scott Morrison for. I do believe that Scott Morrison wrote the book himself, mainly because no
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If Scott Morrison’s Plans for Your Good is a memoir, it is in the tradition of Christian autobiography. But unlike St Augustine – the author of the most famous example – Morrison does not have anything to say about a sinful youth. Indeed, confession – so often a feature of the genre – is rather hard to find.
Scott meets his eventual wife, Jenny, at Luna Park on a religious ungdom group excursion while they are still at primary school. They begin dating towards the end of high school, and marry when he is After 14 painful years of infertility, including unsuccessful IVF treatment, they are blessed with two daughters, who are “the faces of God’s goodness”.
Review: Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness – Scott Morrison (Thomas Nelson)
In reality, Morrison’s book, targeted at an explicitly Christian market, belongs more comfortably in the modern motivational or self-help field of publishing. And while he weaves some elements of political memoir a
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Scott Morrison, Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness
“Most politicians write books about what they’ve done.” Scott Morrison is absolutely correct on this point.
Most prime ministers write books about what they’ve done. The prime ministerial memoir is an established genre in Australian letters, a response to the not-unreasonable expectation that the leader of the country has a contribution to make to the national record.
That these books tend to be monuments to their authors’ self-regard is beside the point. Prime ministerial memoirs are, effectively, closing statements. They represent a final chance for the departing politician to correct misapprehensions, settle scores and pre-empt criticism before the rest of us — journalists, colleagues, citizens and historians — pass judgment. Writing a memoir is a form of democratic accountability. That was never one of Scott Morrison’s strengths.
In this meagre book, Plans For Your Good, Morrison d