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COVID Australia: What Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce can’t explain

COVID Australia: What Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce can’t explain

COVID Australia: What Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce can’t explain
Jul 23, 2021 2 mins, 8 secs

Last Sunday, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, was asked a very simple question: would he support any sort of target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

His rambling answer to Insiders host David Speers was too long to repeat here, but involved the menu in the restaurant in the hotel next to where Joyce was standing for the interview, and an immediate digression into what Labor’s policy might be.

When Speers interjected to say he wasn’t asking about Labor’s approach but the government’s, Joyce said the Nationals’ approach “is that we want to see exactly what’s involved and we want to see exactly what the cost is”.

Labor’s approach was that “they don’t care what’s on the menu and they don’t care what is the price and when what turns up is sauteed gherkins and sashimi tadpoles, they’re prepared to pay anything for it because they said they’ll accept anything for lunch”.

In a week when the NSW government unilaterally declared its COVID-19 pandemic crisis a national emergency, and two other states were fighting to suppress outbreaks, and in a week during which our political leaders were struggling for a strategy for dealing with it all, it might seem weird to focus on a ludicrous and vaguely insulting bit of hokum about another serious policy issue from the country’s second most senior political leader.

The Prime Minister repeatedly says we must focus on what’s ahead, not the past ..?

Not only can Barnaby Joyce not articulate a policy for dealing with climate change.

He cannot even articulate a policy for why he is opposed to a policy dealing with climate change that only exists in some nebulous form because his senior Coalition partner is too terrified to articulate it, lest it stir up Joyce and his mates.

Like Joyce this week, the Prime Minister seems to have been unable not only to articulate a policy, but even to articulate what’s wrong with the one we don’t have?

The PM said it would have all been better if ATAGI’s advice hadn’t made people more hesitant about AstraZeneca.

As Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley pointedly observed in response on Thursday, “if government has an issue with [the ATAGI advice], constructively engage with them.

On the pandemic, the Prime Minister repeatedly says we must focus on what’s ahead, not what has happened in the past (which is understandable given the current dim view of what has happened in the past).

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