Rudd steps into Morrison vaccine leadership vacuum

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This is pretty amusing stuff. Apparently, Kevin Rudd has lobbied Pfizer for more Aussie doses while PM Morrison spends his time confecting lies. Rudd has written to the PM:

A second former PM put the boot in:

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The Morrison government is in full damage control at the propaganda sheet:

A spokesman for Health Minister Greg Hunt told The Australian there was no evidence Mr Rudd’s meeting influenced the decision for the pharmaceutical giant to send more vaccines down under.

As we know, it’s still, unclear whether there’s been any change at all:

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One thing is certain, Morrison polling is suffering. From Newpoll today:

An analysis of Newspoll surveys conducted between April 21 and June 26 puts the Coalition and Labor on an even electoral footing, with Greens preferences pushing the ALP to a 51-49 per cent lead despite the party lagging the government on primary support by 36-41 per cent.

Nationally, the Prime Minister’s net approval rating has been pulled down by nearly 10 points from 27 per cent to 18 per cent.

Love the phrasing. Labor is in a two-party preferred winning position.

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You can say it, Holt St.

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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.