Carrie Bickmore rips into Scott Morrison
Carrie Bickmore has ripped into Scott Morrison by claiming that he allowed his wife, Jenny, to take 'complete responsibility' for his mistakes during their tell-all TV interview.
The Project host picked apart the PM's interview with Karl Stefanovic on 60 Minutes that was aired on Sunday night. During the interview, Mrs Morrison said they believed they were making the 'right decision' by taking their children to Hawaii during the horror 2019 bushfires.
'Did we make the right decision? I thought I was making the right decision for my kids. I obviously was wrong,' she said on the program.
Bickmore then accused Mr Morrison of being 'weak' for repeatedly allowing his wife to take the brunt of the tough questions.
"I don't know if it's part of the edit, but Jenny had to take the complete responsibility for the Hawaii situation,' Bickmore said.
'She takes responsibility as he sat there. I think the whole thing made him look so weak.'
Bickmore then said it appeared like it was a 'push' to have her address all of the failures of his tenure.
'I felt like he sat there and smiled the whole time while his wife, who is not the Prime Minister, had to answer to all the mistakes,' she said.
'It's a simplistic way to deal with what is perceived as Scott Morrison having a problem with women,' co-host Steve Price added.
Waleed Aly said the criticism at the time was not of Mrs Morrison's decision to take the trip, but instead the PM.
'Even if the holiday was her idea, it was still ultimately his idea to go along,' he said.
Mrs Morrison said she wishes the scandal 'never happened' but repeatedly defended the decision to take the family overseas during a national crisis, as Mr Morrison sat quietly.
'I obviously was wrong. Yes, we were over there seeing it and we were like... we really need to get home.
'I wish that had never happened. But I can't change it.'
The family were forced to cut their trip short with the Prime Minister copping heavy public backlash upon on his return home as the bushfire crisis raged.
Mrs Morrison pointed out the spotlight on politicians today is relentless, unlike those in her husband's position almost four decades ago.
'It's 24-7,' she said. 'Can you imagine back in the day when Bob Hawke was Prime Minister and he had a phone and a fax machine.
'People want you to be seen to be doing something all the time.'
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