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The most abject failure of leadership in living memory
Prime ministers are supposed to make the case for change and then discipline their governments. Scott Morrison does not fulfil this most basic task.
Laura TingleColumnistA couple of weeks ago, without consulting the states, the Prime Minister announced he would be re-opening the international borders in states where the vaccination rate had hit 80 per cent.
“It’s time to give Australians their lives back,” Scott Morrison said, in what appeared for all intents and purposes to be a move designed to ensure he was the bloke getting the credit for opening things up, whatever states and territories might be doing, not to mention giving the whole opening up thing a good nudge along the way.
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