‘Vicious stick’ of lockdown being used by Steven Marshall to ensure re-election

Adelaide Advertiser columnist Caleb Bond says Premier Steven Marshall is using the “vicious stick” of lockdown to ensure a COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t “sink” his chances of re-election.

“We are taking measures, increasingly so, using lockdowns as our first line of defence,” Mr Bond told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“It’s this big stick, this quite vicious stick really, that is being used increasingly to instil fear to scare people.

“Because that really, is the only tactic that Premiers and chief public health officers have to convince people that these lockdowns are needed.

“Steven Marshall has a state election in less than nine months, and what he wants to do and what he is doing here, is making sure that there is no spread of any kind of Coronavirus in South Australia because he knows – or he thinks – that is the one thing that could sink his government.

“He’s making rash decisions to protect himself.”

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