We now have governing hesitancy, with Scott Morrison focused on managing the appearance of his own logical contradictions | Katharine Murphy
As the debate over mandatory vaccination becomes a focus for freedom lovers of the centre-right, the prime minister is creeping away from his own interventionist instinct
With Covid-19 cases mounting because of the winter Delta outbreak, Australians are acutely aware of the public health perils of vaccine hesitancy. But this week, Australians were subjected to a different kind of equivocation: governing hesitancy.
Barnaby Joyce gave us the starkest examples. Australia’s deputy prime minister told the ABC on Wednesday governments don’t formulate climate policy, and he couldn’t possibly share what his own position might be until a “competent” authority, possibly the CSIRO or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told him what to do.
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