PM’s ‘indefinite lockdown’ making Aussies ‘political prisoners’ of his election hopes

Australia has no “exit date” for international border closures which could continue indefinitely after the prime minister explicitly admitted he has “no game plan to re-join the rest of the world,” says Sky News host Rita Panahi. Mr Morrison revealed to the Sunday Herald Sun he intended to keep Australia’s borders closed indefinitely, saying the completion of the vaccine rollout did not guarantee a reopening. He also acknowledged he had no plans to abandon a “zero cases” target. Mr Morrow said Scott Morrison was "saying as recently as January and February of this year the strategy was suppression not elimination and now he has come out and explicitly said elimination”. “This is a very big change of messaging by the prime minister,” he pointed out. “Scott Morrison has made himself a political prisoner to panicky premiers like Mark McGowan and Annastacia Palaszczuk and as a result he’s made us political prisoners of his re-election hopes. Mr Morrow said the Coalition were in “full-on election mode” and “smashing that panic button as hard as they can to stay in power."