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Leading article Australia

Get back to where we once belonged

8 May 2020

11:00 PM

8 May 2020

11:00 PM

‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians as if they were unruly children who need to eat their veggies before they get dessert. The dessert being a ‘new normal’ where governments hold our freedoms to ransom until we meet the demands of unimpeachable health experts.

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