The Acting Prime Minister has insisted it is appropriate for Scott Morrison to be having a Christmas break outside of Australia.The Acting Prime Minister has hit back at"naysayers" criticising Scott MorrisonMichael McCormack has confirmed the Prime Minister is overseas with his family at an undisclosed location.
Some Labor MPs have posted online barbs to criticise Mr Morrison for taking a break as bushfires continue to burn in his home state. But those comments have not been reciprocated by the Opposition Leader, who has backed Mr Morrison having a vacation."Everybody deserves a holiday," the Acting Prime Minister told reporters.Mr McCormack said it was a pre-planned trip. It comes earlier than usual, with Mr Morrison slated to travel to India and Japan in January, when prime ministers have traditionally taken a break.
Speculation on Twitter is that Mr Morrison and his family are in Hawaii, but the Prime Minister's office refused to confirm the location, citing security concerns.
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What happened to political assasinations
What a load of tripe
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Coward escapes the heat
... It's not just online.
'Prime Minister abandons country without warning or return date, during unprecedented bushfire crisis.' There you go fixed your headline for you.
ScoMo and family enjoy your Christmas break
'Online Criticism' is pretty much a way to create a story from sitting on twitter all day. Lazy, weak and intellectually vacant. This is the ABC.
The only criticism is coming from the 💧Remember these are the LEFT!
He is reporting to his alien masters. COP25 sabotaged, erosion of global resolve to reduce emissions by dodgy accounting proceeding well, on track for species obliteration... He is not working for the human race that's for sure!
🤔 how else would he be criticised? Send him a letter 🤔 Seems to be ignoring the smoke signals.
Jesus wept!! He got caned when he did turn up earlier and now he gets caned again. And Deputy Cheif of NSWFS said they have been properly provided for. The drip 💧brigade are really good at wetting their pants.
Ahhhhh so this is what the death of journalism looks like... sitting on twitter and then slapping together a summary of the angriest and most unhinged tweets. Cool.
Where’s Wally? Fun to watch when he comes back out of the forest, off the beach, back from the war ... whatever. Michael McSilly now thinks Wagga is out capital. Doesn’t get any better!
That because nobody watches tv anymore!
Only from snowflakes...like ABC
Twitter is not real life
It's not the holiday we are angry about - it's his absence during a time of national disaster, as if he couldn't care less about the people he is supposedly serving as PM.
Scotty has God on his side...god is the only one he answers to, so Scotty doesn't give a toss what we think. Religion is an excuse to 'it doesn't matter and I don't care'.
We haven't had a PM sit a full term since in 2007. The excuse often used is they have 'lost touch'. 12 years on and now we have a PM who holidays in Hawaii while we are in a crippling drought and heatwave. Yeah he seems super in touch with everyday Australians 🙃
More gavmorris ordered spin.
Not just online oh journalist free ABC. At all the Xmas parties I’ve been to. Amongst Mums at sports lessons. In the workplace. Come on. Have some guts and speak to people before you report.AustraliaBurns
It’s on line because Murdoch run ABC wont report it,thats why.
ABC makes sure it’s not seen to be criticising PM 🙄
Now would be the time to wheel out John Howard and ask him what he thinks of this scenario. I'd actually be interested.
Criticism from Labour voters
A lot more than online. People who wouldn’t normally discuss politics are appalled
All this fuss will all be forgotten by next election.
PetraAu It’s not just online. Everyone I talk to is absolutely livid. You dint hear those voices. So stop trying to minimise the response. auspol PMCoward
ScottMorrisonMP - so Christine Nixon can’t eat during bushfire season yet you can leave the country and you are the Prime Munister!!! Fiddle Fiddle Nero
Ukulele lessons maybe? Tax payers expense of course.. Aloha Scott Morrison! 🍌
Shit, I'm spending 6 weeks in the UK. Didn't realise I'd be done for desertion.
And Albo validates this conduct😠
How many of your presenters and journalists have been piling on. Is ItaButtrose on leave as the ABC is in turmoil.
He's in New York. For our Pemtacostal PM, the fires are a sure sign that the second coming is imminent, which explains his disinterest. Brian Houston, Morrison's own leader (the power behind the power) is currently in New York having just purchased prime Manhattan real estate.
Here is some news for you and you can quote me as a reliable source: Twitter isn’t the real world
cscviews Should’ve joined John & Jannette on the Midcoast the fires already been through there
Um, you do know people online are actual people?
There's not just 'online' criticism of the PM for taking off overseas during these unprecedented catastrophic bushfires. The fire chiefs have spoken out too. auspol
On the line
Its only online because YOU LOT AREN'T DOING IT! FireMorrison HillsongPaedophiles
There's plenty of real life criticism going on - it's not just 'online'. Morrison should resign.
badministrator9 You failed to mention that we also complained about your lack of comment on the situation, that Twitter appeared to be doing your actual job for you.
The real question is why isn't he copping it from everyone, everywhere?
He could scratch his nuts and no doubt face criticism from you no-life's.
Online criticism from the extreme left. Gee what a shock 🙄 FakeNews
He will be shaking in his boots from the bed wetters on the Left and that bunch of drop kicks formerly known as the Greens. Chuck in Jane and Phillip, both calling in from their farms, and we have a full house of confected outraged sooks.
One of the chief lessons being learnt from the UK general election is that social media, especially Twitter, does not reflect the opinion of the general populace, but ABC News doesn't seem to have 🙄
Twitter is not real life.
Alternate reading: Lefties Cranky on Twitter
davrosz Oh look! has finally caught up with the news!!
The sense of ScottMorrisonMP entitlement is palpable
What would you expect from a self seeking ‘Actor’ of the people now you tell me anyone that back stabbed his leader a day before he was ousted can be trusted to have ‘the people’ as his interest, wake up Australia FFS 👍
We tweet... we are real people... we are expressing our gteat disappointment that PM Morrison has gone overseas on a family vacation while Australia is facing such a catastrophic bushfire crisis. How have you given us the opportunity to be heard
Oh, you’ve caught up I see 🙄
Every other Australian is having a holiday. So what? He has a phone and access to the internet. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Enjoy your break!
PetraAu Vacation? 😬😬😬
FFS, fires are a state problem, if the brouhaha from the the crowd was captured we could put the fires out, What do you expect the PM to do, piss on the fires, get real, look for real causes that affect the population like jobs, aged care, health and schooling.
It's worth pointing out that people online are actual living breathing people, this isn't let's pretend, while people on the phone or who write to a newspaper are somehow more real. You don't call your boss an arse on social media and expect to still have work come monday.
So he should.
ABC covering its back.
He can holiday when he’s voted out!
Abbott was literally fighting fires and was still hated by the lefties.
Only from the ABC.
If only Josh and SloMo had the intestinal fortitude to pull the plug on your funding.
'Online' people (and ABC Insiders) thought Morrison would lose in a landslide.
Only from the noisey rabble
Only from imbeciles.
He hassled Christine Nixon when she went to a dinner during fires in Victoria many years ago. He has exposed itself as a hypocrite now.
We’re actually real people disgusted with our lazy self indulgent PM , amusing watching MSM spin this .
what a load of crap... criticism from a few leftie morons who more than likely aren't helping fight fires anyway. If help is required HonTonyAbbott will be there... or are the lefties going to whine over that as well
Only your followers..I have received only good wishes from mine..
Ooooo...So many dibby dobbers.. Online Criticism...🙊 Grow up..🤦♀️
Slow news day?
scomo prefers to duck and weave and has NFI how to be a responsible PM
Lol and we can see how accurate “online” is. If you listened to Online, Bull Shitten would be PM. Killary would be President and Brexit would not be happening.
It's not the 'vacation' part, it's the 'vacation during a national crisis' that's the issue
Online criticism, or *actual* criticism?
He should also be facing MSM criticism, or at least questioning. Where your balls at abc 'journalists'? Any of you willing to actually ask the questions that the public want answering? When he blatantly lies, or avoids answering, why aren't you doing your job & seeking truth?
Does America military fly out of Hawaii for Afghanistan? Maybe he’s on a “stop over”? Bless
I am spending my pre Christmas, helping with NSW fires. Have not seen any of his lot. Get your priorities right, people are loosing homes.
Oh no the left are upset. Wow, that never happens
'Online' criticism. ... ahh yep.
Well we won’t hear anything from the useless sycophants at the IPABC, will we?
Only from the 💧s, who hate Morrison no matter what he does. 🙄 AlboMP isn’t criticising. The RFS isn’t criticising.
.It's not because of the 'vacation'. It's because of tbe total lack of leadership in a time of crisis, and the secrecy about where he went.
ignore the left PM. remember the ones that lost the 'unlosable election' they are irrelevant
...and how many fat cats at the ABC are off on their taxpayer funded summer break? Not to return till February. ABC is really pond scum
I’m assuming all the knockers are fighting fires on Xmas day.
I think he would give a shit bcos he has no F......g morals a bogan PM
The absence of the vacuous lickspittle that is Morrison has allowed some actual leaders to shine. We need less of the PM and more real leadership.
BIG DEAL, STUPID ABC HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT
Scomo firewalking on an Hawaiian beach?
He’s been missing in action for more than a week!
He's a prat, he's a Liberal nuff said.
Everyone is entitled to go on holidays and I don't begrudge him that, but ScottMorrisonMP does have form himself criticising former Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon for going out to dinner during the Black Saturday fires, so there's a valid point about his hypocrisy
politicsabc Has someone put together a “where in the world is ScoMo” parody cartoon/where’s wally style find your PM book yet? Clearly won’t find him on the same page as Australia. whereisScoMo
whatever he does he will face criticism from the left
Online🤣🤧
lol nobody cares what hysterical twitter leftists think.
Everyone who critisises Scomo's holiday, is two faced. I bet they take there vacation when it suits them. On holiday or not, I bet he's still in touch with his office etc. Wingers go home.
Overblown. Just a bunch of full time screechers on twitter. If it wasn't this they would find some other storm in a teacup to complain about.
Is Parliament even in session at the moment? I've been to Canberra around this time it's basically a ghost town.
politicsabc Wherever he is, he will probably do some damage control, do a 'Trump' and stop in and visit the troops in Afghanistan on the way back so he looks all patriotic and leader like. Then the Murdoch rags and the SkyNews after dark loonies will praise him as a great heroic leader.
politicsabc Look you guys. This is all pointless. His imperial imaginary friend is boss, so you’re pissing in the windy wilderness.
actually, we might as well be nice to each other for Christmas instead of waiting for some leadership on the matter.
Online criticism isn’t worth the paper it’s written on!
3/ Clapping with the choir Neath the church's spire Surely, this is satire?
Recall parliament and then send them to fires there’s over 100 in NSW so plenty to go round and Tony can train them none of them should be on holiday but serving their electorate
2/ Emissions getting higher Whilst bush is getting drier Wildlife expected to expire Upon a flaming pyre Mankind looking dire Going down to the wire Obviously our volies will tire No $ for gear to hire Economy in a quagmire Journos can't enquire Redacted is a F O I er pto
1/ Ode to Ire The Liar from the Shire Has become a frequent flier Holidaying from the fire Morrison does not inspire Actions getting slyer Its a leader we require One we can admire Not a climate change denier Ignoring the Town Crier Slave to Rupert's empire pto
From the Twitterati, the drips who can't get over the election loss. The left playing tragedy politics under the guise of a 'climate emergency'.
politicsabc Wow ABC still at it Prime Minister cannot have a holiday while ABC shut down most programs over holiday break and getting a billion dollars !! Hmm
yeah mainly from these type. oh and the ones that a jealous, have no job and can't afford a holiday!
Church related I reckon. Would take priority for someone like him.
Facing online criticism because the ALP are too gutless to stick in the boot and the MSM are complicit in Lib lies.
I’m ok with it and so is Albo
Is that code for the ABC not having the guts to criticise him themselves?
He isn’t just someone having a break. He is the head of this country. At a time of such significance I think it’s incumbent upon him to be seen. To be in his own country. Showing support. I am sorry it interrupts his vacation but that’s what happens when you are the boss!!
Come home Scott!
MorrisonFires WheresScotty WhereTheBloodyHellAreYou
Go enjoy your break Prime Minister, your entitled as is every Australian 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
So... ABC “journos” start whining on twitter about Scomo going on holiday. Raise false comparison with “girl’s gotta eat” Nixon. Then after some likes, ABC fakenews publish story that Scomo is facing criticism online. Thus the fakenews circle jerk continues.
What an unbelievably cowardly way to report the PMs absence during a national emergency. The fire & emergency chiefs called him out 'a vacuum of leadership'. firemorrison fires
The same brokens who lost the election
🤔 Out of contact?....the Prime Minister? During time of crisis? Taking a holiday Whereabouts unknown? Hang on a minute for some reason only one thing springs to mind....... Hillsong
Just plain nasty stuff promoted by left extremists. Sick mob
Scott Morrison was also not going to win the last election ! doubtthat
It's only 'online' because, well, unexpectedly, most 'news' agencies apparently don't think it matters. auspol
Rome is on fire but Caesar Scott is MIA having fun in Honolulu
Morrison prob off praying for Trump ....it's impeachment day
He's just having a vacation with his Family. Obama did the same thing during the 2016 Louisiana floods. The Queensland Premier went overseas for an Olympic bid during fires there. Him going staying or going wouldn't change the situation on the fires.
Why does he need a holiday he is not fighting FIRE'S
Won’t confirm he is in Hawaii for ‘security reasons’. Shit the PM’s not near Waimea or Pipeline is he? Don’t let him near the water! Remember Portsea. Surely we haven’t lost another PM, that would be very careless.
I often wonder if Bill Shorten had won the election would he be under the same pressure? I think not
Online criticism! Then it means nothing to the average person except those that troll auspol
Very sick demented abc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope he comes back, fronts the cameras and cries, 'It was all for my girls'... and that our collective spit will be enough to put the fires out.
Online criticism? Why aren’t print media criticising? Oh right.... they are propaganda rags.
Where is the rest of MSM?
It's funny, most of the 'top talent' at the ABC went on holiday last week and won't be back til late January
Just shows you don't need to work hard to get ahead. Just bludge off the taxpayer instead.
We need leadership on the NSWbushfires, a true leader would simply not leave unannounced in a time of national crisis. FireMorrison ClimateEmergency NotMyPM WheresScotty Smoko
Just seen PK spruiking that he deserves a holiday because of hard work ummmmmmmm jeeeeessssuss
Why let a couple of fires get in the way of a nice family holiday?
LOL “online criticism”
Online being the operative word.
I support him staying there.... for ever!
Only criticism coming from the broken lefties. Carry on Scomo.
I'm sure he'll be fine.
Animae29751882 Oh it isn't just 'online' , plenty of offline criticism as well, you just refuse to report it. Sucking up to the LNP while they destroy the ABC. pfft. Scummo is a coward, running away while the country burns, animals scream as they burn to death, people are dying. auspol
WhereTheBloodyHellAreYou
Whilst he is entitled to a holiday - as scottmorrison is apt to say now is not the time.
Soaking up the sun and culture!ove my PM!
Security concerns... bullshit. He lives in the middle of Sydney. His kids go to a regular school. Most people in the world wouldn’t know him if they fell over him.
He’s shown a total lack of leadership during the fires.
Online yes .. Main Stream media ? .. naah
Surely even his supporters can see this is poor leadership. Would have to be crazy not to.
No everyone is criticising him, I'm supporting him. Qld Premier who has direct control of fire services went to Europe on a junket when they broke out in Noosa. It will be cyclone season soon and more natural disasters he has to have time off with his kids when out of school
Yes, pity media wouldn't criticize him like people on social media are. He deserves it. You let him get away with murder. Bet if it was Shorten you'd be screaming criticism from the rooftops. auspol MSM
Only by a few idiots...no case to answer.
Faces criticism for everything he does you just don't report it.
Online because journalism is DEAD
Everybody is entitled to a holiday however if your office building is on fire the CEO does not say bye bye. He/she needs to stay and make sure everything is done to put out the bloody fire and support his personnel.
The abc faces online criticism everyday and does nothing to fix their sick reporting.
It's not just online criticism. Everyone at my work hates his actions and not all of them are considered 'left wing'.
'Online criticism' is putting it mildly!!!!
he is facing 'online criticism' because we on Twitter are the ones doing YOUR JOB.
The ABC is the main instigator and is pushing its anti Morrison agenda just more biased anti Conservative bs from the leftist ABC
From the useless 💧 vermin who listen to ABC misfits
A bit of context . Morrison’s criticism of Christine Nixon during the 2009 fires - on Q&A - is now haunting the PM. Lest people say “he’s entitled to a holiday”, which he sure is, but he has walked out on everyone.
It’s not just online I have just had a luncheon with a group of over 80’s who were disgusted by his lack of leadership when so many Australians have lost their homes, livelihood & any hope of a holiday for years to come.
Love it... ‘online criticism’. This is exactly why Boris, Trump, and Morrison won. Twitter is not real life 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
How are people defending Scott here Plenty of people working regular jobs get called in to work and have to delay family holidays and other important occasions. Let alone a PRIME MINISTER GOING OVERSEAS DURING UNPRECEDENTED FIRES! What will it take to get him to lead Aus?
Why is it only online & not media? smh It is not right at all. Leaders do not go on holiday in crises
“Facing online criticism “? He’s not facing anything. He’s hiding somewhere. No one knows where, for sure. And the ‘criticism’ is the sort Mussolini got at the end of WW2.
We all need a holiday although this one is very bad timing.
... not just online (see Ch 10 report last night)
He has the tin ear of a professional change denialist. He has to keep the fossil fuel fuel lobbyand their proxies happy.
ScottMorrisonMP, Scomo the Australian public are fed up with this. Please make the ABC a subscription network for 6 months. And see what numbers they pull in. I guess 30k out of 25 million.
Online criticism 😂😂😂😂😂You will find it is the same ‘online’ minority of hysterically vocal punters who predicted a resounding Shortern victory. You know the supercilious Barrie Cassidy grievance vendor types. But they are your bigggest supporters so might as well run it.
Reminds me of the backlash RealMarkLatham faced when he failed to address the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. His critics were as justified then, (and that was for the Opposition Leader), as ScottMorrisonMP's are now. And grow a spine AlboMP or step down. auspol
Good. Hold his feet to the fire. Literally if possible.
if it's not a problem and ok to do what's with all the secrecy surrounding Mr Marketing's sneaky getaway while coast to coast fires rage, drought worsens and economy slides in to recession.Typical Morrison and LNP concealing the truth and lying trying to justify it. SkyNewsAust
Think we're missing the real story here - Michael McCormack has crawled out of the booster seat and now at the wheel
If everybody deserves a break where’s ours we can’t afford one. The firefighters deserve more than this ignorant man PM in charge of our country standing akimbo with that smile on his face auspost ShamelesScoMo
Lying abc AGAIN.
Stop whinging ABC.
😠
Lefties and would boo Santa Claus.
Online? Have you seen The Project’s piece last night? Or Peter Van Onselen’s story on TEN news about Morrison’s attack on Christine Nixon during the Black Saturday fires? Are you giving him an excuse that it’s only the Twitter lefties who are outraged?
On line criticism 😂😂😂
Enjoy your break SCOTT. ScottMorrisonMP. You have done a good job this year. Especially winning the May Election. A big year ahead so rest up with your family. Merry Christmas and Thank You👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Let WE vote on everything. No more PM. No more spin.
Hey SKOMO please stay on holidays for a extra week so as to piss these lefties of a bit more, they are providing me with some much needed entertainment at the moment.
Yeah by Lefty haters
Quite rightly, apart from anything why is he traveling overseas? Is there nowhere in Australia he could have gone?
daveyk317 Would he be on holiday if the disaster was more to his liking, politically? We wouldn't be able to turn around, he would be everywhere. He doesn't want us to care about climate change, and his holiday is a political point. AlboMP, I don't understand your timid response.
As Albo said, just cheap politics.
That's 'cos he's a bludger. What if the firies downed tools and flew off to Hawaii?
No Problem He doesn’t help anyway so what’s the point. I suggest an extended Personal Holiday up until June next year
SeanBradbery What’s “online criticism”? He is being criticised in every form of media. Why lie ?
Online criticism. I'm sure he's quaking in his boots. Stop reporting twitter reactions like it's meaningful.
Did Morrison fly to his holiday in his $250 million Shark One refurbished plane. FireMorrison MorrisonsFires
If labor was in power there would be no bush fires or climate change and we would all be millionaires.
This about sums it up.
Scott Morrison facing criticism on Twitter. Wow how surprising 😒
I really hope Morrison comes back and the first thing he does is defund the ABC by at least 800 million.
The media pushing online criticism of PM for taking a holiday. Not news.
Just had to pop over for some fresh air.
What sort of family hating deviants would attack a father for taking off time to be with his wife and kids? I bet they wouldn't dare atack a woman for getting her work life balance right. 🙄
I am so insecure i need the Prime Minister holding my hand on a daily basis! 🤪🤪🤪
I think leaving the country when it is in crisis shows a lack of leadership or just a lack of understanding that we are in actually crisis. But please, please stop showing pics of the little girls! It isn’t their fault!!!
He's just like George..
maybe he should face some press criticism as well? if only there was some kind of publically funded journalism in this country to question why our 'leader' is abdicating his responsibility!
About bloody time Aunty got off her backside & reported on this story. auspol
it's not just online, as if that makes any difference. nobody i've spoken to, online or off, thinks Morrison's actions are anything but negligent & selfish.
Who gives a FF where the waste of space is he’s achieved SFA since falling into the position because people are gullible and believe the BS auspol
Fact: nobody cares about manufactured outrage and fake news.
If you think this is confined to online you are seriously deluded. People I speak to who wouldn't know how to turn on a computer are raging angry about this dereliction of duty when the country is facing a crisis.
Can't believe this is a story...everyone is entitled to go on holidays. I'm sure there are people in your office in holidays right now
Like he criticised a policewoman for having a dinner during Black Saturday. Like Abbott and co criticised Gillard for visiting family when he father died.
To be accurate, replace ‘online’ with ‘left echo chamber’
Does criticism 'online' make it less valid somehow? How about just 'facing criticism' because believe me I've heard the criticisms 'in print' and in real life conversations too!!!! auspol