Poll ratings are rising and falling based on management of the pandemic. That’s why the Morrison government must throw everything into rolling out the vaccine as fast as humanly possible.
Political commentary in Australia is dominated by party politics. Every decision by the government is analysed in terms of its electoral impact on the government and the opposition. And then every fortnight or so opinion polls are published and commentators judge the winners and the losers.
There’s endless analysis about who is winning and losing in day-to-day politics even if the election is years away.
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Alexander Downer was Australia's longest serving foreign minister, from 1996 to 2007, and most recently Australian High Commissioner to the UK.
