Everyone’s calling the Josh Freydenberg “speech” yesterday a speech. I disagree with that characterisation and framing.
The reason it was so effective is because it wasn’t a speech at all as we understand a typical speech to be from a politician.
A speech is more prepared lines with a beginning, a middle and an end.
But Freydeberg’s delivery was extemporaneous and much more that of an unprepared talk.
𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞.
I’m not suggesting he’s the next Prime Minister, that’s yet to be tested. Some excerpts from the Josh Freydenberg speech