Competing health and economic concerns 'polarising' PM's border debate by Sky News Australia on YouTube
Competing health and economic concerns 'polarising' PM's border debate
The Prime Minister and Premiers are becoming increasingly divided on the topic of border closures due to competing health and economic responsibilities in the wake of COVID-19, according to The Australian's Canberra Bureau Chief Joe Kelly. Mr Kelly said the Newspoll released by the Australian revealed two major themes; firstly, the tightening of the political contest at the federal level and secondly, escalating conflict around hard border closures. Recent polling showed popular support for the Prime Minister fell by four points while the Opposition Leader jumped four points in terms of his rating as preferred prime minister and in two party-preferred the major parties reached a 50-50 deadlock. “[There was] overwhelming support for state border closures in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia," he said. “This is problematic for Scott Morrison and it’s problematic for one key reason and that reason is that his government is seen responsible for the economic response to the crisis and the premiers are being seen responsible for managing the health response to the crisis”. “I think that now what we are seeing is a conflict, a growing clash, between the economic response to the coronavirus crisis and the health response. Mr Kelly said Scott Morrison "needs to go against popular opinion here in encouraging state premiers away from this sort of provincialism to try and get the economy back on track." Image: Getty
View on YouTube
The Prime Minister and Premiers are becoming increasingly divided on the topic of border closures due to competing health and economic responsibilities in the wake of COVID-19, according to The Australian's Canberra Bureau Chief Joe Kelly. Mr Kelly said the Newspoll released by the Australian revealed two major themes; firstly, the tightening of the political contest at the federal level and secondly, escalating conflict around hard border closures. Recent polling showed popular support for the Prime Minister fell by four points while the Opposition Leader jumped four points in terms of his rating as preferred prime minister and in two party-preferred the major parties reached a 50-50 deadlock. “[There was] overwhelming support for state border closures in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia," he said. “This is problematic for Scott Morrison and it’s problematic for one key reason and that reason is that his government is seen responsible for the economic response to the crisis and the premiers are being seen responsible for managing the health response to the crisis”. “I think that now what we are seeing is a conflict, a growing clash, between the economic response to the coronavirus crisis and the health response. Mr Kelly said Scott Morrison "needs to go against popular opinion here in encouraging state premiers away from this sort of provincialism to try and get the economy back on track." Image: Getty
View on YouTube
Nhận xét
Đăng nhận xét