The prime minister can’t lead, and he doesn’t want to. That would entail losing the smirk. So ordinary Australians will continue to suffer.
In hindsight, yesterday’s release by Scott Morrison of the aged care royal commission’s final report was predictable.
Given the disaster that is aged care in Australia — the ongoing misery so many senior Australians endure in substandard care in an industry chronically underfunded and under-resourced — surely we would get a break from the prime minister’s incessant focus on spin and presentation and get some substance?
Perhaps some acknowledgment of failure — not just, or even particularly, from the Morrison government, but an acknowledgment that all governments since the 1990s have failed grievously to properly provide for the sector?
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