Scott Morrison’s press conference showed classic blame-shifting, something voters have seen time and again in this pandemic. | David Crowe | ANALYSIS auspol
The roar of frustration from Australian households finally reached the courtyards of Parliament House on Wednesday with a volume Scott Morrison could not ignore.Scott Morrison did not apologise for the pain Australians were feeling from Omicron. He only conceded it was there.Morrison made sure his opening remarks to his press conference on Wednesday, broadcast live as usual on ABC TV and Sky News, were about acknowledging the anger in the community over the Omicron wave.
“You’ve seen queues, you’ve seen rising cases, you’ve seen pressures on hospital systems, you’ve seen disruption of supply chains, you’ve seen shortages of tests,” he said. This came with a message, however, that Australians were not alone in seeing this pain – and that their Prime Minister, by implication, was not at fault.“That is what Omicron has brought. But that is of no comfort to Australians who have had a frustrating and difficult and highly concerning summer, and that is something that we must continue to work together to push through.”
This was not a mea culpa. Labor leader Anthony Albanese says Morrison failed to order enough vaccines in time last year and has just made the same mistake with rapid antigen tests. Morrison did not give a quarter on this charge.“We accept our share of the responsibility when it comes to providing the tests that we are responsible to provide,” he said. This was important. Even so, he argued that tests were mostly up to the states and territories.
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