Just a few months ago the Prime Minister looked politically impregnable with the success of the pandemic response. Now, having set high expectations on the vaccine rollout - which he has had to dash - he’s starting to look politically indefensible.
Laborâs cheeky media move irks Laming Andrew Laming has fired up as Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese held a press conference outside his office, announcing the Labor candidate for his seat.
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Subscriber only Besieged Bowman MP Andrew Laming has hit back at Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese after Labor held a press conference announcing their latest candidate outside his Redlands office. Dr Laming, who is on mental health leave while he undergoes empathy training, called Mr Albanese s visit to the electorate a cheap shot . The Opposition Leader announced Indigenous health professional Donisha Duff as Federal Labor s candidate for Bowman in a press conference outside Dr Laming s office on Friday.
Whatever the supply questions (and the question of whether there should have been more contracts signed is for another day), the vaccination of aged care residents was contracted out, the delivery of vaccines around the country including to doctors surgeries was contracted out to DHL and Linfox (rather than Australia Post), and the vaccination of the general populace was going to be done through the quasi private sector capacities of the GP network.
What could possibly go wrong when the full resources of the private sector had been engaged?
Well, apparently quite a lot. And it looks like the federal government will have to politely ask the states to help use their public resources to get us out of a jam, just as they did with quarantine facilities.
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Life used to be much simpler for all of us when everyone observed a few basic “givens” in Australian politics. These include that the Coalition parties think the public sector is an inefficient abomination, in whatever form it manifests itself, and that Labor thinks the opposite.
Events of the past week show how topsy-turvy all that has become.
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