1. geography: large island, small population, massive oceans between us and other continents.
2. polity. Incredibly compliant population, including under heavy handed policing.
3. internal borders. States that can and did close, constitutionally, because public health.
important that Australians and the world know this. Very low transmission here and Aust as corona exemplar is a function of our geography and polity. Despite, not because, of the performative shitclown who happens to be prime minister.
even more important as Vlanders and his type cave in to party political lobbying. There is no reason a game of football can not go ahead without the prime ministers blessing. Nobody needs his imprimatur. Unless funding is tied to Morrison’s agenda.
let’s not normalise the prime minister politicising sport. Either the NRL is independent of political influence from high office or it is not. Either the footy restarted on 28 May 2020 without prime ministerial lobbying or it did not.
or maybe - and stay with me here - the NRL executive are totally on board with Morrison’s 24/52 campaign strategy of leveraging a phoney footy persona for electoral benefit. Crazy I know but just might work - for white male executives.
when the footy restarted, Morrison was snapped in a corporate box schmoozing Liberal Party donor Scott Briggs, who was lined right up to collect billions in public cash for privatised visa processing until that was stymied by exposure.
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