> Angering those Australians would have been a huge danger for Morrison when he is only a few months away from an election.
This has been the entire strategy for the government's handling of the pandemic - national interests be damned, as long as it favours the party being re-elected.
I don't think that national interests really mattered anytime in any country. That is just a tool to keep power. Maybe it's important for some politician, but focusing on power grab is way more beneficial at the top.
There's no need to be so pessimistic. Plenty of people go into politics with good intentions, and some even stay that way after some time there. Some want to be remembered, some genuinely want to fix things. Some just want power.
Skepticism is healthy, full on pessimism "everything is just a power grab" is extremely unhealthy.
>Skepticism is healthy, full on pessimism "everything is just a power grab" is extremely unhealthy
I agree but lets extend this same treatment not just to Westerners but to Eastern people too, otherwise it is just hypocrisy. I say this because the top comment on a previous post about Djokovic claims that his PCR test is genuine not because he was really positive with Covid, but because his family is influential with the Serbian government. This sort of prejudice and discrimination is plain disgusting
He actually flew back to Sydney to visit his kids during the middle of a lockdown when people couldn't visit dying relatives, because it was fathers day!
This has been the entire strategy for the government's handling of the pandemic - national interests be damned, as long as it favours the party being re-elected.