Did Scummo order Ruby Princess docking?

Thursday 2 April 2020

10% of Australia’s entire Wuhan flu episode have been traced back to one almighty screw up in Sydney where the ship of the damned, the Ruby Princess, disgorged many sick passengers into the community a few weeks ago.

There has been a political blame game ever since between Sydney and Canberra but there are rumours that the whole thing is an inside job:

Was there someone aboard that Scummo pulled strings for? Any other leads welcome.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.