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The so-called National Cabinet

This is no way to produce sensible policy

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

Last month, Australia’s top bureaucrat congratulated himself on the creation of the so-called National Cabinet, saying that this had made Australia’s response to the pandemic ‘one of the best, if not the best, in the world in terms of the federations’. Earlier, the prime minister had likewise patted himself on the back for making a monthly National Cabinet meeting with the premiers and chief ministers a permanent feature of Australian governance.

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