{"id":12680,"date":"2021-08-27T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12680"},"modified":"2021-08-27T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:42:47","slug":"state-government-steps-up-when-scott-morrison-refuses-to-lead-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/state-government-steps-up-when-scott-morrison-refuses-to-lead-again\/","title":{"rendered":"State Government Steps up When Scott Morrison Refuses to Lead. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Scott Morrison was any kind of leader, purpose-built quarantine facilities would be up and running by now.<br \/>\nInstead, it again falls to a state Premier to fill the leadership vacuum, with Annastacia Palaszczuk committing to fast-tracking the purpose-built quarantine facility proposed at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been more than 18 months since the first COVID case in Australia.<br \/>\nPremier Palaszczuk proposed Wellcamp as a fit for purpose facility in January.<br \/>\nThis project could be safely quarantining people right now.<br \/>\n<strong>Scott Morrison had two jobs this year \u2013 rolling out the vaccine and fixing quarantine.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHe has fundamentally failed at both.<br \/>\nQuarantine is a Federal responsibility. With this Prime Minister, all responsibilities are always shipped to someone else.<br \/>\nIf Scott Morrison had done his job \u2013 there would have been fewer than the 27 disastrous outbreaks from hotel quarantine.<br \/>\nIf Scott Morrison had done his job \u2013 there wouldn\u2019t be 38,000 stranded Australians left overseas desperate to get home.<br \/>\nIf Scott Morrison had done his job \u2013 the extended, devastating lockdowns on the east coast wouldn\u2019t be happening.<br \/>\nFrom the Prime Minister known for his \u201cI don\u2019t hold a hose\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s not a race\u201d style of accountability, today\u2019s press conference was another shining example of his lack of leadership.<br \/>\nNow one can add \u201cShe has been at liberty to do that for months\u201d and \u201cGood for them, I wish them every success\u201d to the litany of examples of this Prime Minister\u2019s absence of leadership, revulsion at responsibility, and his reflexive avoidance of simply ever just doing his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Scott Morrison was any kind of leader, purpose-built quarantine facilities would be up and running by now. Instead, it again falls to a state Premier to fill the leadership vacuum, with Annastacia Palaszczuk committing to fast-tracking the purpose-built quarantine facility proposed at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba. It\u2019s been more than 18 months since the first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/state-government-steps-up-when-scott-morrison-refuses-to-lead-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State Government Steps up When Scott Morrison Refuses to Lead. Again.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}