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MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:00 pm on April 28, 2021 | 36 comments The Morrison Government’s bungled vaccine rollout faces further hurdles with almost two thirds of Australians unwilling to get vaccinated, according to the latest Essential Poll: Australians are reluctant to take the COVID vaccine. One in six Australians also said they never intend to get vaccinated, with another 42% open to the idea but under no sense of urgency. Last week, health department secretary Brendan Murphy said the government was still aiming to vaccinate its entire vulnerable population by mi...

Sarah Cameron Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas. Yesterday, thousands of Australians marched around the country, angry and fed up at the treatment of women. In Canberra, they formed a ring of protest around Parliament House. This comes after Melbourne academic and entrepreneur Janine Hendry wondered how many “extremely disgruntled” women it would take to link arms around parliament to tell the government “we’ve had enough” (the answer is about 4,000). The marches follow Brittany Higgins’ allegation of rape in a minister’s office in 2019 and an allegation At...

How rape allegations among Australia’s political elite reignited its #MeToo movement When Australia’s attorney general last week outed himself as the minister accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1988, his denial was emphatic. “The things that I have read did not happen, and to suggest that they could be forgotten is ridiculous,” said Christian Porter, who oversees legal affairs and national security, before starting a period of mental health leave. For Prime Minister Scott Morrison, that was the end of the matter. The alleged victim didn’t file a police statement before she died...

A double-digit deterioration in perceptions of Scott Morrison’s personal attributes has been wholly driven by female voters

Some in the party, it seems, have learned only to emulate the mistakes of previous generations, believing it will somehow deliver a different result. There is a gradual escalation of the thinking of self-saboteurs. Convinced that they deserve government but that the party is unjustly held back by circumstances, the doubters first look for excuses outside the party. They blame the milieu created by Covid. They still resent the leader and his team for failing to launch policies or attack the government even though the entire world is focused on the pandemic. The doubters believe the leader shou...