Brendan Murphy, the steady Doc who became a star, makes his exit

It was the bedside manner the patient - which is to say, the entire nation - needed.Bushy eyebrows, floppy hair and a modest, knowing air, Brendan Murphy lacked only a battered Gladstone bag.Close the doors, he advised on February 1. And glory be, the man of the house, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, saw to it that by midnight the doors were closed to China, Australia's biggest trading partner.

Night after night, day after day, Australia sat glued to its TV sets, waiting for the Doc to explain the next step he'd advised in delivering a new Australia. Why, he said, as if he were discussing a spot of poor weather, Australians lived on a very fortunate island, and the "mini-outbreak" of infections in Victoria had always been predicted, and was the sort of thing "we planned for".

Doc Murphy, you might think, seems about the unlikeliest TV star since NSW fire chief Shane Fitzsimmons won every rating in the land during the height of the summer bushfire emergency.

tonyowright You need to get out more, each state has a chief health officer too.

tonyowright 'A star' wtf?

tonyowright Ah yes the catastrophist in chief pretending we were all gunna die spurred on by idiot media

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