Opinion

Actually Prime Minister, this virus is very political

By Hayley Cull
Updated May 5 2021 - 2:44pm, first published 5:25am
Right now there aren't enough vaccines to go around globally - and Australia isn't doing all it could to help. Picture: Getty Images
Right now there aren't enough vaccines to go around globally - and Australia isn't doing all it could to help. Picture: Getty Images

To hear Prime Minister Scott Morrison say this week that the pandemic has "nothing to do with politics" was strange, I thought. Politics, at its best, is about holding society together and playing a meaningful role in the world. What could be more political than a global crisis?