The Morrison Government has the commentary. But what about the answers?

The former host of the ABC’s Q&A program, Tony Jones, famously used to tell questioners missing appropriate verbs in their questions that he would take their question “as a comment” and sit them down.

In politics these days, the prevailing form of response to a journalist’s question should lead to the observation that “I will take your answer as a comment”.

It’s hardly a new phenomenon: the apparent complete disregard for the idea that you, a politician with a taxpayer-funded salary, have any obligation to answer questions about what you are doing.

But the chutzpah with which the Prime Minister and his colleagues engage in it now is still staggering, when you stand back and look at it from even the tiniest distance.

Examples stack up

Take a…