Not only can Barnaby Joyce not articulate a policy for dealing with climate change. He cannot even articulate a policy for why he is opposed to a policy dealing with climate change that only exists in some nebulous form because his senior Coalition partner is too terrified to articulate it, lest it stir up Joyce and his mates.
COVID is getting worse, and so is the dysfunction
Joyce's contribution just helps frame the dysfunctions not just in politics but policy, which we face as things get worse by the day on COVID.
It's not just the COVID case numbers that are getting worse, nor even the glaring inadequacies and delays in our vaccine supply.
It's the poor messaging that created so much vaccine hesitancy, it's the lack of consistent data, coherent advice, a coherent rollout plan and, now, coherent and consistent economic support.
It's not that a lot of all those things aren't there in the background, somewhere.
We just now also have a breakdown in communications of what the policy might be.
Like Joyce this week, the Prime Minister not only seemed to have been unable to articulate a policy, but also seemed unable to articulate what's wrong with the one we don't have.
