Virus won't wait for our leaders to stop playing word games

Australia's compromise model achieved suppression of the virus by April, only to have it return with a vengeance within two months. New Zealand had eliminated the virus for just over 100 days before it flared again this week. Neither country can brag now.

But a more substantial shift was underway, drawing the people of the two cities closer together, and separating them from Queensland, and the rest of the Australia. The clearest expression of this trend has been at the ballot box. The past two federal elections have seen firm Labor majorities in Sydney and Melbourne cancelled by coalition supermajorities in Queensland.

The cold war threatened to explode into open conflict on Tuesday when federal defence minister Linda Reynolds issued a statement directly contradicting Andrews. He had told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry: "I don't believe ADF support was on offer." She replied with a detailed list of offers. It was an extraordinary back and forth. Morrison and Andrews are well aware of the game each man is playing. They maintain a veneer of civility while each side probes for a weakness through proxies.

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