Scott Morrison reveals his biggest weakness – and it’s VERY different to Anthony Albaneses

Scott Morrison’s claims his biggest weakness is being too good at problem solving. 

A clip of the Prime Minister’s unexpected response to the question posed by Sunrise host David Koch sparked hundreds of comments on TikTok. 

‘I tend to go straight into problem solving mode… when I do that, people sometimes don’t think that I really understand how they’re feeling,’ Mr Morrison told the host.   

A clip of the leader’s unexpected response to the question posed by Sunrise host David Koch did the rounds on TikTok earlier this month 

‘I can assure you I do… My father was a policeman, my brother is a paramedic. When we see a problem, we want to fix it.

‘Get $2 billion into support for the communities. Get the money to the flood victims. Ensure that we’re putting JobKeeper in place. 

‘I tend to go straight into fixing things, Kochie and sometimes that might not come across the right way. 

‘People might criticise me for lacking a bit of that empathy on occasion, it’s because I’m just really focused on trying to solve the problems that they’re facing.’

The video quickly caught the attention of younger Australians who took the opportunity to poke fun at the prime minister’s claims in the comments. 

‘I tend to go straight into problem solving mode… when I do that, people sometimes don’t think that I really understand how they’re feeling,’ Mr Morrison said of his biggest weakness

‘Wait hang on a second… he hasn’t actually solved any problems,’ one said. 

‘Apparently he does his best problem solving when he is in Hawaii,’ another jibed. 

‘I’m using this one in my next job interview,’ a third joked.

Mr Morrison has repeatedly been accused of not being compassionate towards those in difficult situations as recently as the northern NSW floods in March.

In the Australian summer bushfires of 2019-20, Mr Morrison famously received a prickly reception in the fire ravaged town of Cobargo.

Days earlier he had cut short an Hawaiian holiday as fires spread out over large swathes of the country with the excuse that he ‘doesn’t hold a hose’.

The Sunrise hosts later asked Labor leader Anthony Albanese (pictured) the same question, who said his biggest weakness was his loyalty

The Sunrise hosts later asked Labor leader Anthony Albanese the same question. 

‘I have found my biggest weakness is my loyalty,’ the opposition leader said. 

‘I am very loyal to people and sometimes that makes me a bit predictable and that sometimes can hurt me politically.

‘I make no apologies for that. That is just who I am.’

The leaders squared off at the Channel Nine studios in North Sydney on Sunday night for the second leaders debate of the election campaign. 

The politicians repeatedly argued and spoke over each other in a debate that voters complained they found difficult to watch – and even harder to follow along. 

The leaders squared off at the Channel Nine studios in North Sydney on Sunday night for the second leaders debate of the election campaign (pictured)

Frustrated viewers took to social media to vent their anger about how the heated debate was mediated and a faulty online voting poll. 

The rivals had several fiery clashes with the biggest blow-up coming on the topic of national security when the two men yelled over the top of one another.

In a key moment, the prime minister was humbled when he admitted that he should have described the Covid-19 vaccine rollout as a race after he repeatedly told Australians ‘it’s not a race’ at the start of 2021.

But he landed a blow on Mr Albanese when he told the Labor leader ‘you have changed your mind on so many things’ and listed his policy backflips. 

‘Small target, big risk,’ he said while gesticulating at his opponent.

The rivals had several fiery clashes with the biggest blow-up coming on the topic of national security when the two men yelled over the top of one another 

On national security, Mr Albanese said the Solomon Islands’ new secret security deal with China amounted to a ‘massive foreign policy failure’ by the Government.

He also blasted Mr Morrison over the Northern Territory government leasing Darwin Port to a Chinese company in 2015 – which Mr Morrison defended by saying the Commonwealth Government had no say in the deal.

‘Your party, your tick off,’ Mr Albanese said before the PM responded: ‘You’ve been telling this lie for some time.’

Channel Nine initially declared Labor Opposition Leader Mr Albanese as the preferred Prime Minister between the pair, despite a technical glitch leaving thousands of furious viewers unable to vote online.

It later announced Prime Minister Morrison as the winner before votes shifted back towards Mr Albanese and was later locked at 50-50.