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Scott Morrison has changed tack from ridiculing COVID-zero states to saying he “acknowledges” their worry about opening borders, with the Prime Minister telling the Coalition to start preparing for an election.
As the saying goes, a week is a long time in politics.
Just days ago, Mr Morrison was telling Queensland and Western Australia to get out of “the cave” of lockdowns, claiming they were ‘undermining’ the reopening plan and comparing them to children’s movie The Croods.
By Tuesday, he was on a morning blitz across what he called the “low-COVID” states, singing from a new songsheet where he could see their “sensible concerns”.
Barely moments later, he was addressing the Coalition party room, telling colleagues that election season was coming and urging them to make the best of the looming five-week parliamentary break by starting their campaign planning.
“The election will come around sooner than we think”, the PM told his MPs in Canberra on Tuesday.
The reopening plan, and Mr Morrison’s re-election prospects, are inextricably linked.
As The New Daily explained on Tuesday, Mr Morrison’s attempt to recast himself as a champion of winding back COVID rules, and to paint premiers as lockdown-happy ‘cave dwellers’, is based on his hope that exhausted Australians will eventually rally around his flag by election day.
It’s a bold play, and one predicated on the hope that people in Queensland and Western Australia might waver in their strong support for risk-averse Labor premiers in those states.
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- By Gus Leonisky at 2 Sep 2021 - 4:52am
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the endemic pandemic...
In the Orwellian world of the pandemic, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews's raising of the white flag on "COVID zero" was greeted positively by the Morrison government and with relief by many among the public who are at the end of their tether.
We've now officially moved into a new stage. As federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Thursday, "the pandemic has become endemic".
In accepting Victoria couldn't get back near zero, Andrews was following NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, who lost control of the virus, with daily new cases in that state now running well above a thousand and rising.
Only weeks ago there were hopes of suppressing the outbreaks in both states. When it was becoming obvious NSW was failing, Berejiklian was criticised for not locking down early and hard enough. Andrews went hard immediately — and failed too.
"Living with COVID is a reality — it's not an option," Berejiklian said on Thursday, sending the blunt message to premiers still set on COVID-minimalisatio that they'd have to accept the Delta world.
As they will. But not for some time, if they can help it.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-03/covid-pandemic-now-endemic-and-transition-not-easy/100430664