Scott Morrison wants his family photo album back. It was mistakenly sent to an op-shop where it was bought by a customer who soon realised they’d acquired a volume of glimpses of our former PM’s life in the 1990s. Holidays in London, living it up at the Sheraton, taking a dip in a lake and recovering after a hard New Year’s Eve — these images had meaning for Morrison it seems.

Having recently cleaned out my parents’ house after the death of my mother, I was moved by hundreds of emotionally resonant family snaps I found during the process. So perhaps I should have more sympathy for Morrison’s loss.

Yet I can’t help feeling that he had it coming to him. After all this is the man who, when Treasurer, presided over the sale of the place where Australia’s family photo album was made and maintained until 2011.

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