Australia news live: Scott Morrison says he had ‘no intention’ to upset former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate

The fact is that Scott Morrison contracted out to the states most of the responsibility during the pandemic. He was responsible for a few things though – the app that no one’s used and has been of no purpose and that cost a lot of money.

Secondly, aged care where he passed off responsibility, didn’t have appropriate safety mechanisms in place, even though the federal government is the founder of aged care, the regulator of aged care and establishes all of the rules and is quite clearly responsible.

And the third area of course is the area of the vaccine rollout. We said last year that they needed to do five or six deals, that was international best practice in order to secure a rollout of the vaccine that would ensure people’s health was looked after but so that the economy could be opened up.

It was the key. And today we have more thought bubbles. Today we have Scott Morrison saying he is placing Australia on war footing. What’s his response? A couple of meetings a week.

Under Scott Morrison, “we will meet them on the beach, we will meet them on the phone hook-ups”. That’s his idea of war footing.

The fact is that he is responsible and the federal government is responsible for the deals on vaccines. And the problem that you have is you can’t have a rollout of the vaccines if the vaccines aren’t available. And the federal government hasn’t made the vaccines available. They put all their eggs in the AstraZeneca basket and then the chickens have come home to roost when that has failed.