Bob Hammill, Sale
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I’M not the least bit worried I’ll get the COVID vaccine and get it on time.
Other than COVID-19, I can’t think of any other event which has given premiers and the Prime Minister so much positive exposure and pushed opposition leaders so far into the background.
That’s a massive advantage for those in power and the recent landslide victory in Western Australia may be just be the start of what’s to come in other states.
If so, we could be in for an interesting ride. Even with a good healthy majority, things in politics change.
Policies which were no more than ‘pipe dreams’ get dusted off.
Contentious policies like the detention of refugees and electoral changes get pushed to the forefront, and with the number of backbenchers with nothing to do, control of the party becomes almost impossible.
If you are a believer in the theory oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them, the rollout of the vaccine is critical.
If it goes well, I think the current opposition parties (both state and federal), will have a very hard time even getting close to forming government at the next election.
Current governments aren’t stupid – and they know what’s at stake.
They won’t be just throwing buckets of money at the rollout, they’ll be putting bobcats into Treasury to make sure it does go well.
