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Scott Morrison’s ‘new deal’ for a Covid-normal Australia is just the old deal he’s failed to deliver – get us vaccinated | Katharine Murphy
The PM’s plan is the quicker we all get vaccinated, the quicker we get out of this; less an insight than a statement of the bleeding obvious
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Scott Morrison is known as a great admirer of Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. But Morrison channelled the spirit of the other Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, when he strode back into the prime minister’s courtyard on Friday after his brief spell in quarantine, and declared there was a “new deal”.
Here was Australia’s plan for a plan – in this case, a pathway out of Covid-19. Four phases, with supplementary technocratic dot points. Four phases and technocratic dot points might sound like a gratuitous put-down, so let me be clear.
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