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When Covid first reared its ugly head and the Prime Minister established the national cabinet, many thought that was exactly the right thing to do and it immediately gave us hope.  Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews were suddenly good friends.  But it didn’t last long before selfish political ambitions took over destroying the harmony that we needed so much to have happen.  All the Premiers did a fantastic job in bringing the virus under control only for the badly managed vaccine rollout – a federal responsibility – to plunge us into a series of lockdowns.  Victoria suffered a dreadful time but managed to eventually get the State back to near normal life, despite the Prime Minister together with the Treasurer and the Minister for Health, both in Victorian electorates, praising New South Wales’s gold standard approach and criticising Dan Andrews for not following NSW.

Now that NSW is in trouble, all three are suddenly very quiet.

Because Victoria is a Labor State, there was no way that the NSW Premier was going to follow what Dan Andrews did and go early and go hard into lockdown and now they are in serious trouble. But the fault really lies with the Prime Minister.  The States have certain responsibilities and so does the federal government but this is not the time for federal Liberal cabinet ministers to wave their arms and say – that is a State responsibility nor should any Premier be saying that a certain situation is a federal responsibility. This is a time to show real leadership and take control of the national government and demand that all States work as one.  It might need emergency laws passed to do so but it should have been done. Then in the event of a fresh breakout, all States would be singing to the same tune.  And NSW wouldn’t be in such dire straits and Victoria would not have plunged into another lockdown because of three recalcitrant removalists.

When Covid first reared its ugly head and the Prime Minister established the national cabinet, many thought that was exactly the right thing to do and it immediately gave us hope.  Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews were suddenly good friends.  But it didn’t last long before selfish political ambitions took over destroying the harmony that we needed so much to have happen.  All the Premiers did a fantastic job in bringing the virus under control only for the badly managed vaccine rollout – a federal responsibility – to plunge us into a series of lockdowns.  Victoria suffered a dreadful time but managed to eventually get the State back to near normal life, despite the Prime Minister together with the Treasurer and the Minister for Health, both in Victorian electorates, praising New South Wales’s gold standard approach and criticising Dan Andrews for not following NSW.

Now that NSW is in trouble, all three are suddenly very quiet.

Because Victoria is a Labor State, there was no way that the NSW Premier was going to follow what Dan Andrews did and go early and go hard into lockdown and now they are in serious trouble. But the fault really lies with the Prime Minister.  The States have certain responsibilities and so does the federal government but this is not the time for federal Liberal cabinet ministers to wave their arms and say – that is a State responsibility nor should any Premier be saying that a certain situation is a federal responsibility. This is a time to show real leadership and take control of the national government and demand that all States work as one.  It might need emergency laws passed to do so but it should have been done. Then in the event of a fresh breakout, all States would be singing to the same tune.  And NSW wouldn’t be in such dire straits and Victoria would not have plunged into another lockdown because of three recalcitrant removalists.

When Covid first reared its ugly head and the Prime Minister established the national cabinet, many thought that was exactly the right thing to do and it immediately gave us hope.  Scott Morrison and Dan Andrews were suddenly good friends.  But it didn’t last long before selfish political ambitions took over destroying the harmony that we needed so much to have happen.  All the Premiers did a fantastic job in bringing the virus under control only for the badly managed vaccine rollout – a federal responsibility – to plunge us into a series of lockdowns.  Victoria suffered a dreadful time but managed to eventually get the State back to near normal life, despite the Prime Minister together with the Treasurer and the Minister for Health, both in Victorian electorates, praising New South Wales’s gold standard approach and criticising Dan Andrews for not following NSW.

Now that NSW is in trouble, all three are suddenly very quiet.

Because Victoria is a Labor State, there was no way that the NSW Premier was going to follow what Dan Andrews did and go early and go hard into lockdown and now they are in serious trouble. But the fault really lies with the Prime Minister.  The States have certain responsibilities and so does the federal government but this is not the time for federal Liberal cabinet ministers to wave their arms and say – that is a State responsibility nor should any Premier be saying that a certain situation is a federal responsibility. This is a time to show real leadership and take control of the national government and demand that all States work as one.  It might need emergency laws passed to do so but it should have been done. Then in the event of a fresh breakout, all States would be singing to the same tune.  And NSW wouldn’t be in such dire straits and Victoria would not have plunged into another lockdown because of three recalcitrant removalists.

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Pity the children

I wonder how much thought went into the latest federal government ad campaign to encourage us to vaccinate.  Many  young children have already suffered enough stress so far during this pandemic and images of a lady struggling to breathe are only going to further affect their mental well-being.  And I am certain that there are many like me who have the remote ready to mute the television when the mostly banal ads come on, or get up and get a drink, or go to the little room.  This campaign is another poorly thought out waste of taxpayers’ money.

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Simples

“What’s in a name” asks Jeremy Browne (The Age 13/7).  I totally agree.  Life would be so much easier if we all had ID cards.  We can’t use the driver’s licence because not everyone drives but why not consider possibly scrapping the driver’s licence and issuing a form of ID card to everybody – say when they turn 16 or 18 maybe.  Space could be reserved for driver’s licence details.  As the meerkats say – simples!

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Penalty shootouts

I feel so sorry for Saka, the teenager who missed the crucial penalty in the European Championship shootout.  He will never forget and many English people will never let him forget.  He will be booed and jeered in public and it will affect his mental health.  Soccer is an International sport played by over 250 million people in more than 200 countries.  It’s time to find a better solution than this absurd penalty shootout farce.  He’s lucky he lives in England – in some countries his life would be in danger.

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Julia Banks

There are, of course, two sides to every story, and I have heard plenty from listening to and reading about Julia Banks (in The Age).  I haven’t heard anything of substance from “the other side”, only insignificant comments, typical throwaway lines we have come to expect from our politicians.  I would love to see a meeting between Scott Morrison and Julia Banks chaired by someone like Stan Grant.  But sadly that will never happen.  Scott knows it could cost him the next election.  When highly regarded and competent women like Julia Banks are hounded out of Canberra, it is Australia’s loss.  Scott Morrison got rid of the best Prime Minister the Liberal Coalition has had for decades – Malcolm Turnbull – and then Julie Bishop and now another woman who has Prime Minister potential.  All for his own personal desires.  We deserve better than this.

                  

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