num_pages: 304
description: What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game?Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ourselves. What precisely that secret is forms the subject of this book.In The Game Sean Kelly gives us a portrait of a man the shallow political culture that allowed him to succeed and the country that crowned him.Morrison understands  in a way that no other recent politician has  how politics has become a game. He also understands something essential about Australia  something many of us are unwilling to admit even to ourselves.But there are things Scott Morrison does not understand. This is the story of those failures too  and the way that as his prime ministership continues Morrisons failure to think about politics as anything other than a game has become a dangerous liability both to him and to us. An engrossing illuminating and often disquieting study of Scott Morrison. Sean Kellys forensic analysis of the man he describes as the symbolic perfection of a certain version of Australia  compels us all to consider our complicity in his creation.Niki SavvaIts been almost impossible to get a handle on Scott Morrison. Until now. Sean Kelly has done it comprehensively. Barrie CassidySean Kelly exposes Morrison with wit and righteous precision. After reading this insightful funny and absolutely maddening dissection of the man I can now clearly see him for what he is. Tom Ballard
language: English
title: The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison
publisher: Black Inc.