Small Business Women Australia’s Amanda Rose says she hopes Scott Morrison “shows some compassion” to the people who “suffered depression during the COVID19 pandemic after the former prime minister revealed his own mental health struggles.

Ms Rose’s comments come after former prime minister Scott Morrison is set to reveal details in an upcoming book on his mental health struggles.

“Politics can be quite nasty,” she told Sky News Australia host Steve Price.

“Show some compassion to all the people that have been impacted by his decisions and by politics.

“We had a lot of people suffering depression say from the lockdowns during COVID and so forth.”