Perspective: Scott Morrison carries two pieces of baggage onto the global stage: his mansplaining manner, and his unflinching loyalty to the leader with the most catastrophic response to the pandemic so far, Donald Trump.
Spare a thought for Scott Morrison. He has a valuable story to tell the world about Australia’s response to the coronavirus. The Morrison model of shared power between the Commonwealth government and the states and territories has proven to be more efficient in a health crisis than the wartime approach where a single politician or expert assumes the burden of national saviour.
This week, the governments of Britain and France politely brushed off the Prime Minister’s call for an international inquiry into the pandemic. Now was not the time to discuss it, they said. A spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that their focus was on saving lives. A spokesman French President Emmanuel Macron reminded Morrison that there should be "transparency for all players" not just the World Health Organisation.
This week, the British and the French leaders played a version of the same game. They pulled rank without humiliating Morrison, saving the Prime Minister from his own impatience. Australia’s call to reform the WHO jumped one obvious step: the pandemic is not under control. Asking allies to think ahead to a new world order, and without ringing ahead to test the idea, was naive, if not downright presumptuous.
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