Fifteen years after winning the safe seat of Cook, the true story of Scott Morrison’s ugly preselection fight can now be revealed. For the first time, statutory declarations show how Morrison allegedly used race and religion to undermine a rival.

Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, who broke the story, on what really happened and what it tells us about Scott Morrison as a politician.

Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton

Background reading: ‘Actually a Moslem’: The true story of Morrison’s ruthless preselection in The Saturday Paper.

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The true story of how Scott Morrison got to parliament