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Despite being told not to by nearly everybody in his team, the Prime Minister spoke to the media this morning to clarify a number of things being said about him in the press.

Scott Morrison took time out of his busy morning to speak to The Advocate via telephone, where he explained that when ‘everything in the country isn’t going very well, he just wants all Australians to know who he is’.

“Look, Errol, I don’t want the world, or the country for that matter, to see me,” he said.

“Because I don’t think that they’d understand that when this country is facing turmoil and needless anxiety, I just want them to know who I am but not where I am, if you understand what I’m saying,”

“You know, mate, sometimes you need to bleed just to know you’re alive. Like the nation needs to burn a little bit just to know how good it is.”

The Prime Minister then asked our reporter if he had any questions, to which The Advocate replied saying yes.

“Ok, I’ll answer them if you promise to stop calling me Scotty From Marketing. Can you go back to calling me The Nightwatchman? That was classic and summed me up quite well. Like how I was the underdog?”

Our reporter said he couldn’t agree to that and hung up.

More to come.





