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One of Australia’s TV icons has treated the nation to a vintage performance this week.
Sitting down for a one-on-one with the Prime Minister, A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw has reminded viewers why she is a force to be feared.
With Scott Morrison seemingly under the impression he was going to be given a few catch-and-pass opportunities to dot the ball down, Grimshaw bundled him over the sideline.
As the nation watched one of the only TV interviews given by a Prime Minister during an election campaign, Grimshaw gave Morrison the reckless hoon treatment.
Normally reserved for people partaking in street racing, doing burnouts in cars, ripping off pensioners with shoddy construction jobs, or being neighbours from hell, the treatment resulted in an under-the-pump Prime Minister trying to dismiss all of his failures and pretend like things would be different going forward.
“You don’t hold a hose, you weren’t in your tinnie plucking people off rooftops, you weren’t doing 16-hour days in PPE on COVID wards, you didn’t get enough vaccines soon enough, you didn’t get enough RATs so that we could finally have a holiday interstate for Christmas, and China is set up, based in the Solomons,” said Grimshaw during the interview.
That tone of questioning was the theme for the majority of the interview, with Morrison’s staffers reportedly furious that Grimshaw have broken rank with the rest of the network and decided to ask the tough questions.
“Why the fuck do you think we’ve been avoiding live interviews,” said one of Morrison’s staffers today.
“Because of this shit. We thought we were gonna get a nice fluffy one, and Tracy decided to treat Morrison like he’d been caught doing burnouts in a quiet suburban street on a Sunday night.”
“Don’t worry, Peter Costello (the former Liberal treasurer in charge of the network) will be hearing about this.”
Scott Morrison was unavailable to comment.
More to come.
