Sky News contributor DaisyCousens says she is “sick to death” of the rhetoric used by the Queensland Labor Party talking about the easing of COVID-19 restrictions as a privilege rather than a right.
Sky News contributor Daisy Cousens says she is “sick to death” of the rhetoric used by the Queensland Labor Party talking about the easing of COVID-19 restrictions as a privilege rather than a right. “It is the most condescending draconian sort of attitude and you see it all the way through their rhetoric,” Ms Cousens told Sky News host Gary Hardgrave.
“They have this idea that government should be like a parent, that’s why they go on and on about how ‘we need to protect Queenslanders and we’re saving lives and that’s why we’ve shut the border’. “Sorry, that’s the job of parents to look after children, that’s not what the role of government should be.
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