Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says the Coalition Government's first budget in 2014 had cut $110 million from science funding and 'hollowed out' the nation's lead scientific agency, the CSIRO, one of the groups that Australia was 'now counting on' to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
Back in April, when state borders were first being shut,made by former foreign minister Alexander Downer that the closures were "unconstitutional", digging up some interesting history along the way.
In November 1918, the Commonwealth and states had agreed that borders would only be closed after joint consultation. That agreement broke down almost immediately after Victorians infected with the flu arrived in NSW in late January 1919. A series of other border closures followed, "at which point the Commonwealth threw up their hands and left the states to squabble among themselves", Dr Hobbins said.
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