Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has has been slammed as a a ‘complete and utter nark’ for his attack on Scott Morrison..
Radio shock jock Ray Hadley flung a brutal putdown in defence of his friend the current prime minister, who was called a liar by Mr Turnbull.
‘He’s always been a liar,’ Mr Turnbull said, while attending the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Wednesday.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has copped a spray from radio personality Ray Hadley, who was defending his friend Scott Morrison
An awkward handshake in Rome between Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and French President Emmanuel Macron (left)
But on Sydney’s 2GB station, Mr Hadley opened fire, calling Mr Turnbull a ‘complete and utter nark’ and accusing him of ‘siding’ with France and against Australia.
‘[Malcolm Turnbull] doesn’t have a legacy, as far as I’m concerned that’s gone,’ Mr Hadley told his listeners.
‘An unwanted nuisance, that’s what Malcolm’s been in Glasgow… you’re just a nark, a complete and utter nark.’
But then Mr Hadley’s language got cruder: ‘You’re a whinging, complaining nark who needs to shut up… some would say, “shut the f**k up”.’
Mr Turnbull hit out at Mr Morrison after the PM said he wouldn’t cop any ‘sledging of Australia’ after French President Emmanuel Macron labelled him a liar.
‘Oh, he’s lied to me on many occasions,’ Mr Turnbull said when asked about the spat at the Glasgow summit.
‘There’s quite a few examples in my book, but he’s – Scott has always had a reputation for telling lies.
Ray Hadley used some very crude language on his radio show in reference to Malcolm Turnbull
Queensland Senator Matt Canavan hit back at the former PM Turnbull, who has repeatedly undermined those involved in his ousting as Liberal Party leader and thus prime minister.
‘I thought Malcolm Turnbull went halfway around the world to save the planet, but apparently he’s gone to just grind more axes’,’ the Senator told the Today show on Wednesday.
‘Three years on from losing his job it still hurts. He’s trying to take it out here.
‘He’s just become a bit of a tosser, hasn’t he?’ He just constantly seems to gripe about these things.
‘He’s gone all this way over to Glasgow, you’d think he would focus on those issues that are obviously very personally passionate to him.’
Today co-host Allison Langdon asked if he’d just called Mr Turnbull a ‘tosser’ and would the Senator keen to elaborate further.
‘Is there any other word to describe it,’ Senator Canavan replied.
‘Get over it. It happened years ago. It was a decision of the party room that you yourself benefitted from years before in getting rid of Tony Abbott.
Queensland Senator Matt Canavan called Mr Turnbull a ‘tosser’ over the comments and said he was still bitter about being replaced as Prime Minister by Mr Morrison in 2018
‘To take this new stance ‘I’m the only one that’s ever been deceived in politics’, there’s only one other word for it and it’s good Australian word, ‘Mate you’re a bit of tosser. Get over it!’
Australia in September announced it was cancelling the 2016 contract to acquire conventional Attack Class submarines from France’s Naval Group.
Mr Morrison said he made it ‘very clear’ to Mr Macron in June the conventional diesel-powered submarines were not going to meet Australia’s strategic requirements.
‘We discussed that candidly. I did not discuss what other alternatives we were looking at,’ he said.
‘It’s no secret, I’m sure in Australia, that this was a project that had few friends, and that is a point that we had made to Naval and particularly to the French government.
‘It’s clear from President Macron’s statements yesterday that the level of offence is still very great and we will wait for that to subside.’
Emmanuel Macron (pictured at Cop26 in Glasgow on Monday) has repeatedly claimed Scott Morrison gave him no warning the French submarine deal was to be scrapped
The government will now spend the next 18 months looking at the feasibility of acquiring technology for nuclear-powered vessels from the United States and United Kingdom under the AUKUS partnership.
Communications between the two leaders were also leaked to the media, with the French president reportedly telling Mr Morrison, ‘I don’t like losing’.
Days before the announcement, Mr Macron reportedly messaged Mr Morrison asking, ‘Should I expect good or bad news for our joint submarine ambitions?’
Mr Albanese said the leaking of the text messages highlighted how the prime minister was treating international partners as political opponents.
‘Gaslighting and backgrounding is no way to build relations with our important democratic neighbours,’ he said.
‘Diplomacy requires trust and sombre engagements between leaders’.
The latest comments come after a leaked text message appears to show that Emmanuel Macron was given warning that Australia could torpedo its $90billion submarine deal with France, as his extraordinary row with Mr Morrisonreaches fever pitch.
A secret leaked text message (pictured) appears to show that Emmanuel Macron was given warning that Australia would torpedo its $90billion submarine deal with France
The French president had claimed he was not informed about Australia’s plans to tear up the defence contract until moments before the AUKUS security pact was revealed to the world on September 15.
In a stinging rebuke at the G20 Summit in Rome, he called Scott Morrison a ‘liar’ for suggesting he was given prior knowledge that the defence deal would be scrapped.
But in a message believed to have been leaked by Mr Morrison’s office to show Mr Macron knew the agreement was on shaky ground, the French leader wrote: ‘Should I expect good or bad news for our joint submarines ambitions?’
The leak comes off the back of Mr Morrison issuing a stunning reproach to the French leader, lambasting him for ‘sledging Australia’ in a war of words which threatens to overshadow diplomatic negotiations in Europe.