Prime Minister Scott Morrison will use Friday's national cabinet meeting to call for an end to the virus border wars
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will use Friday's national cabinet meeting to call for an end to the virus border wars that have turned Victoria into a pariah state and put at risk the nation's economic recovery from the pandemic.
"There are ways to push back," he said. "You might choose to do it at a media conference or you might choose to do it one on one."Eddie Jim Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said the decision to keep state borders closed to Victoria was not supported by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, which since the onset of the pandemic has maintained that domestic borders are not an effective means of containing the virus.
Ms Palaszczuk, whose handing of the pandemic has boosted Labor's electoral prospects, said she was sick of Queensland being singled out for criticism and suggested Victoria should have closed its own borders earlier.
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