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On Saturday, February 1, 2020, two days after laying his father to rest in a private ceremony, prime minister Scott Morrison sat in his study at Kirribilli House, the Gothic twin-gabled prime ministerial residence on the shores of Sydney Harbour. He was facing a decision no prime minister before him had been forced to contemplate outside wartime. Morrison had made up his mind that Australia would have to close its borders to China. It was only a question of when. Read Next Morrison was by then acutely aware of the potential for an escalation of Covid-19 cases coming into the...
