Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s rugby league delusion – The Australian Financial Review

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s rugby league delusion – The Australian Financial Review

He turned up in the Sutherland Shire in 2srcsrc6 only after he’d identified the safe Liberal electorate of Cook as his best chance of entry into the federal parliament.

Up to that point, he’d lived his entire life in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, as an ardent supporter of Sydney rugby union club Randwick and super rugby team the NSW Waratahs.

Even in 2src1src, he admitted “I’m more of a rugby [union] fan” and in 2src12 declared that rugby union “will always be my game”.

If anything, Morrison should’ve been on the blower to Hamish McLennan for a spot on the board of Rugby Australia.

Yet, he still imagines himself a rugby league administrator. On the basis, alone, of his manufactured devotion to the Sharks? By that logic, Morrison should be appointed to the board of Simplot Austral

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