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Anthony Albanese is laying the blame of Australia’s Covid predicament squarely at Scott Morrison’s ft:
How is it now we have bought up to now? The fast antigen assessments had been accredited final September.
The nationwide plan made it clear that when we opened up there can be an elevated variety of infections and we would have liked to ensure we deliberate for it. We would have liked Scott Morrison to do his job.
Working folks have been saying that they wanted entry to testing, for instance, for months after months. The Transport Staff’ Union wrote to the federal government final September about provide chains and the disruptions that might happen in the event that they didn’t get entry to fast antigen assessments and now we all know this authorities solely ordered en masse fast antigen assessments this week. It’s extraordinary their complacency.
We have now had a grand slam of failures from this authorities, whether or not it’s tracing, testing, and quarantine. On every event they wait till … an issue turns into a disaster earlier than Scott Morrison acts.
