ANALYSIS: Why Morrison's go-to answer won't solve our COVID problems
We are living in grim times. Governments, along with the rest of us, have had to contemplate even grimmer scenarios.
"When we were first briefed as a national security committee on COVID, we were preparing for morgues at public hospitals, for defence personnel to be deployed to turn people away from hospitals.
But his comments once again saw the military featuring as the go-to answer to all things that go wrong these days. Last June, with the government under pressure over the vaccine "strollout", the PM announced Lt Gen John Frewen would be taking over the running of the national COVID vaccine taskforce.Defence has played a big role during this pandemic, including in running the hotel quarantine system.
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