Sky News host SkyNewsRicho says it’s understandable Australian premiers are reluctant to act on Prime Minister ScottMorrisonMP's push to reopen state borders.
Sky News host Graham Richardson says it’s understandable Australian premiers are reluctant to act on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s push to reopen state borders. During recent National Cabinet meetings Mr Morrison clashed with state premiers over issues surrounding border closures.
“If you’re in Queensland, that’s had very few cases, you don’t want them to come so a politician like Palaszczuk jumps up and says ‘I won’t let any bugger come over the border’ … they’ll do well,” Mr Richardson told Sky News host Peter Gleeson. “What the Prime Minister wants to do is simply not what a lot of Australians want to do, even though I believe he’s unquestionably right. “Fear is an easy thing to pedal in politics … and fear is trumps right now.
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