The Importance of Career in Australian Politics

I fear that there are too many people in the public lives of Anglo-sphere countries today who aren't really there for the right reasons. You've got to do it out of a sense of duty and commitment and passion and love. I think by the time Scott Morrison was prime minister, it really was even weaker. The Rudd-Gillard cabinets were much weaker than the Hawke-Keating cabinets. And if you're doing it as a vanity project ... well, frankly, you're there for the wrong reasons. Look, I don't want to run down the current government or the prime minister because he's personally been very kind and courteous and respectful towards me. But