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Flat White

Bring out McGimp

16 December 2020

5:38 PM

16 December 2020

5:38 PM

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan isn’t a native sandgroper. He’s from Newcastle and only washed up in the West thanks to his time in the submarine service.

Pop psychology can be a dangerous thing, but McGowan’s main measure to contain coronavirus, the Iron Ore Curtain that cut off his state, has been the nation’s strongest, longest COVID measure of them all, even outdoing Daniel Andrews.

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