When Scott Morrison failed to vaccinate his party against Craig Kelly

Morrison, at the time a new prime minister with a government in chaos and an election due in a few months, rushed to Kelly’s aid.

He furiously lobbied the NSW Liberal Party’s state executive to endorse Kelly’s pre-selection for his seat of Hughes in southern Sydney.

No matter, apparently, that Kelly’s views on climate change were so at odds with established science that he once claimed the island of Tuvalu was growing, not sinking, and has said the world is cooling rather than…