The reluctant special envoy

Tony Abbott is not rushing in to accept the offer to become the special envoy for indigenous affairs and no wonder. Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to have baited a dangerous political trap for the Liberal Party's plotter in chief that is up with the best from the House of Cards.
The PM, while pretending to show Mr Abbott that he cares and the public that he is generously forgiving, would be dispatching him to the frontiers of heartbreak and despair. Without any real responsibility for doing anything, the special envoy would still become the fall guy for all the problems besetting our first citizens. The response for any future pleas to Canberra for help would surely be “phone Tony he’s your man”.


Little wonder the monk is hesitant about “accepting a title with no job”. The former prime minister this morning said he would consider the proposal but wanted to find out more about what it would entail.
“Let’s see what this new role entails, obviously I have been going to indigenous Australia for years and years and years now.
“I’ll keep doing all of this regardless but what I would like to know from Scott is exactly what he has got in mind.
“I suppose what I don’t want to do is trip over the toes of the minister, the chairmen of the various parliamentary committees.
“We’ve already got a lot of people in this space and I want to know exactly what value I can add.”

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