The absence of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison in recent weeks as much of the country has been plunged back into COVID-19 crisis-mode with multiple clusters, border closures and Sydney’s ongoing shutdown has been conspicuous. To say Morrison has done the bare minimum is generous. Morrison has gone several days at a time – at the height of a national crisis – without even speaking publicly. The vacuum of leadership from the Federal Government as the nation struggles, made the reports that Prime Minister Scott Morrison had not made a single phone call to the global chair of Pfizer, Dr Albert Bourla, in the eight months since November 2020, when it became clear that the company’s vaccine was far more efficacious than anyone dreamed, all the more shocking. That this news broke at roughly the same time the nation was confronted with a terrifying ad that quite cruelly depicts a breathless young woman at the mercy of COVID19, encouraging Australians to go out and get vaccinated, made the damning revelation even worse. If the PM had picked up the phone to try and ensure adequate supply of vaccines no young Australians would need to fear contracting the virus they can’t…
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