National Cabinet has become “fractured” and its long-term prospects look like a “failure” according to Independent Senator_Patrick, who says Australia is seeing an end of “alignment” across the federation.
|National Cabinet has become “fractured” and its long-term prospects look like a “failure” according to Independent Senator Rex Patrick who says Australia is seeing an end of “alignment” across the federation. “We have a National Cabinet now that is quite fractured, it’s nothing like it was at the peak of COVID, we’re returning to federalism,” he told Sky News. “We’re seeing the prime minister have a go at Labor premiers, we’re seeing Labor premiers now pushing back on the prime minister.
” Mr Patrick said National Cabinet worked well in the height of the pandemic but tough decisions on issues like cracking open borders and the cost of returning Australians home are on its doorstep. “Now all the hard decisions come, and we will not see alignment across the federation,” he said. “What’s happening today in relation to bringing people back to Australia we are seeing resistance, the states saying you’ve got to contribute.
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