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At a final party at Kirribilli House, the prime minister gave us one more weird Morrison moment before he fades into oblivion.

Soon the antics of Scott Morrison and co will fade into the distance, never to be written about again. But not today, dear reader, not today. Because it turns out that the man who famously doesn’t hold a hose, does hold a whip — and he knows how to use it.

Nine News got some footage of the former PM’s leaving do at Kirribilli House overlooking Sydney Harbour, where the Morrison family thanked staff for their service in a very traditional way: Jenny served up some margs and Scott cracked the whip (no, really).

#EXCLUSIVE: The outgoing Prime Minister hosted his last function at Kirribilli House this afternoon – with drinks, canapes, and whip-cracking to mark the occasion. @MarkWBurrows #9News pic.twitter.com/JFCezxtP6R

Footage shows Morrison on the lawn getting out a whip and having a solid crack (and looking like he’d done it before), while guests look on and one awkwardly claps. Then Jenny and daughter Abbey also have a go and guests stand around worried they’re going to be asked next.

The reaction online was one of general confusion: why a whip, Scott? 

The whip cracking at the former PM’s shindig is weird. A symbol of his control? Letting out frustrations ? Auditioning for Australia’s Got Talent?

But honestly, we should probably be thankful. At least he didn’t serve up raw chicken to his guests, or tackle any of their seven-year-old sons to the ground. 

Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese will soon make the big move from Marrickville in the inner west to take up residence in Kirribilli — and if his inner-west friends are anything like mine, he’ll never hear from them again once he crosses the bridge.

Imogen is audience editor at Crikey. Before joining Crikey she was an engagement editor at The Correspondent, managed communications and events at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, and worked as the digital manager at NGO Sunrise Cambodia.

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Umm – the Prime Minister of Australia lives in The Lodge in Canberra, the capital of Australia, so why the assumption that he’ll live in KIrribilli?

Kirribilli should be sold and the proceeds used for public housing.

If it was sold you know a dirt bag will end up with it. Keep it.

Agree don’t sell it but open it up for public housing anyway.

Wasn’t it originally meant for government guests?

Albanese stated that he will move to Kirribilli as this would be appreciated by his current neighbours.The security required for his Marrickville home is too invasive for the locale.

Why not the Lodge, the official residence?

@Woopwoop I suspect it has something to with his shared custody arrangements with his former wife AND Kirribilli House has been called the bunker Kirribilli for obvious reasons.

Has he got another kid apart from the adult son?

Well past any custody arrangement

I hope Albanese doesn’t move to Kirribilli. We don’t need another PM for Sydney.

Why is it only Sydney and NSW that there is an alternative Prime Ministerial Residence to The Lodge? Surely it’s time there was one in every State, on the off-chance that one day we get another PM who didn’t live in Sydney beforehand.

Or they could just live in the national capital Canberra at the lodge like everyone else up until Howard. If they don’t want to do that then don’t put your hand up for the job.

I agree. It’s a given that any PM will be spending a lot of time in Canberra, but if the PM has school aged children, they shouldn’t have to leave their school and friends behind and relocate to Canberra. How many of you would want to live there?

Plenty of people (well, mainly men) uproot their family and move to a new post.

It was never use, nor intended, as an alternative Prime Ministerial Residence to The Lodge – that was entirely Hyacinth’s hubris and overweening arrogance.

And the fact she was heard more than once to bellow, “I will NOT live in the same city as her!”

I have family in Marrickville, they don’t even go to the beach let alone cross the bridge 🙂

“Oh the dead-wood stage is rollin’ out over the land Now the curtains drawin’ and the driver’s over the pan…..”

It’s all fun until someone loses an eye…

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