It was former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating who supposedly said ‘Never get between a Premier and a bag of cash’.
And Australians have learnt to get out of the way.
Federalism is, to say the least, messy. Even well before responding to coronavirus, it had become synonymous with overlap, duplication, waste and blame between state and federal governments.
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