Originally Posted by
dr dre
Morrison addressed that himself in this
ABC live blog of his press conference today (about half way down):
Morrison says the difference between cities like Brisbane and Perth versus Melbourne and New South Wales dealing with cases is that "we are very confident about how Victorians and New South Wales residents would respond".
"Both Western Australia and Queensland haven't had much game time for their systems, with their contact tracing and things like that, as other states have had.
You have to realise that there is also politics in Morrison’s statement. So do not read anything into that statement.
He knows full well there is a WA election coming up. And with the Liberals already way behind he is deliberately playing it nice with the WA premier so as not to put the state liberals in a more negative light as it appears WA voters are happy with the current handling of the pandemic. Rightly or wrongly.
I would expect the language to change a little after the election.