I don't understand. Morrison has been very confident in the media. Weekly briefings when boats arrived and relevant information provided. I can understand them not wanting to reveal too much info, as it would be used by people smugglers.
Now there are no boats, what's the point of weekly briefings ?
So far the media strategy has succeeded brilliantly.
Firstly, the previous government always announced the arrival of a new boat, which Navy ship had intercepted it and was escorting into Christmas Island, how many arrivals on board and sometimes their nationality. These were always press releases.
Now the media rarely reported these arrivals, if they did tended to bury the story.
But Morrison's team obviously realised that the reverse would happen once coalition was in govt - ie the media would beat up every arrivals as a "failure"" for Tony Abbott.
So very neatly they stop the instant announcements and instead they announce them all in one go every Friday - and then only minimum information, restricted to the numbers.
Secondly, they institute media briefings every Friday, where Campbell appears with Morrison.
By contrast the previous govt only every held media conferences if some stuff up had occurred - ie when forced into it.
But by appearing at weekly conference people got used seeing an Army General alongside the minister.
And most of all General Campbell was able to set expectations for future operations - ie he would never comment on sea (read turnback/towback) operations. This was really effective because when they started the turnbacks in December nobody found out about them for weeks.
And then, being Christmas, they had the perfect excuse to suspend the weekly media conferences during the break - and now all they're forced into having is äs needed" press conferences.
Meanwhile - all the operational detail of how many arrivals and so on will be issued in a press release - just like Labor used to do.
Nifty.