View from The Hill: Morrison government accepts Victorian closure but won't budge on High Court border challenges
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Scott Morrison has repeatedly and vociferously championed keeping state borders open.
But on Monday, Morrison was forced to change course, agreeing, in a hook up with premiers Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian that the Victorian-NSW border should be closed.
In a somewhat Jesuitical distinction, Morrison said they had agreed “now is the...