It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Prime Minister, along with state and territory leaders, signed off a plan to end lockdowns and border closures when vaccine rates reached 80 percent of the adult population.




But it didn’t take long for the so-called national plan to fall apart, with states and the federal government spending the last week bickering over Australia’s roadmap out of this crisis.




Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the battle over when to open the country up… and the Prime Minister’s strange decision to invoke an animated movie to help argue his case.




Guest: Columnist for The Saturday Paper, Paul Bongiorno.




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It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Prime Minister, along with state and territory leaders, signed off a plan to end lockdowns and border closures when vaccine rates reached 80 percent of the adult population. But it didn’t take long for the so-called national plan to fall apart, with states and the federal government spending the last week bickering over Australia’s roadmap out of this crisis. Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the battle over when to open the country up… and the Prime Minister’s strange decision to invoke an animated movie to help argue his case. Guest: Columnist for The Saturday Paper, Paul Bongiorno. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

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It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Prime Minister, along with state and territory leaders, signed off a plan to end lockdowns and border closures when vaccine rates reached 80 percent of the adult population.But it didn’t take long for the s...

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