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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is more concerned with potential threats from outside the nation rather than focusing on domestic problems, writes Hannah Thomas.

THE RECENT FOOTAGE of Prime Minister Scott Morrison lifting his safety visor and staring directly into blinding flames while welding for a photo op encapsulates the reckless idiocy that has defined his prime ministership and made us all less safe.

And it must be emphasised, against the din of his hyperventilated ravings on national security, that we are all less safe because of Morrison.

By any rational, meaningful definition of “national security”, there is no greater threat than climate change. So, any leader whose approach to dealing with climate change is to hasten it by opening new coal, oil and gas plants is the threat and should never be taken seriously on national security, end of story.

Climate change poses a much greater existentialist threat than the traditional security concerns that Morrison likes to fantasise about and froth over due to the relationship between climate stability, food and water supply, public health and ecosystem stability. Climate change is also a crisis multiplier with its potential to exacerbate refugee crises, inequality, political instability and conflict.

In the immediate term, we in the colony face more frequent, extreme weather events that are directly and indirectly harming our health, livelihoods and communities. Despite our vulnerability in the driest inhabited continent on Earth, Morrison is responsible for the world’s worst climate policy, without exaggeration. And every disaster sets a new low, with a government-initiated GoFundMe page to help Queensland flood victims being current rock bottom.

Morrison’s approach to the other threatening elephant in the room, COVID-19, has been similar: unleash the mutating beast and leave it to individuals to avoid being trampled. He shirked responsibility right out of the blocks and continued to run from matters which were unambiguously for his Government: quarantine, aged care outbreaks, vaccine and rapid antigen test supply and the broadcasting of vaccine misinformation by his colleagues.

As of 31 January 2022, 2,639 people have died with or from COVID-19 in Australia according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Those deaths were far from evenly spread — it turns out it’s much harder to “live with the virus” and survive the Morrison Government if you aren’t rich and White.

At the peak of the most recent wave in Victoria, a code brown emergency was declared across the hospital system. Ambulance Victoria declared a code red twice in a week. Supply chains were thrown into chaos and worker shortages brought the economy to its knees, proving beyond doubt that economic stability depends upon human health (as if that needed to be proved).

Morrison was his usual cool, calm and absent. He went to the cricket and Bathurst, refusing to do the bare minimum to keep us safe by making RATs free or at least clamping down on the businesses overcharging for them. He completely abandoned us.

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/scott-morrison-is-the-biggest-threat-to-national-security,16112

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