Scott Morrison's tone-deaf leadership is the last thing traumatised flood victims need. Here are two ways he can do better

By Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland

As French statesman Charles de Gaulle once said, faced with crisis a man of character “falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own”.

So how, then, might we judge Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s character amid the flood catastrophe facing parts of Queensland and New South Wales?

Morrison has faced heavy criticism for his sluggish response. When touring flood-ravaged Lismore in NSW this week, he avoided…

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