Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended his travel from locked-down Canberra and Sydney for Father’s Day after nation-wide backlash.
ScoMo accused former Labor leader Bill Shorten of a “cheap shot” after he described Morrison’s judgment as appalling.
The Prime Minister boarded an RAAF VIP jet from Canberra to his hometown of Sydney to spend the weekend of Father’s Day with his family, before returning to the ACT on Monday.
State health authorities granted him the exemption to return to the nation’s capital, given his movements were seemingly restricted to The Lodge and Parliament House.
“In politics, people like to take a lot of swings at you and you get pretty used to it, but sometimes those jabs can be low blows,” Morrison told Sky News on Tuesday.
“I can understand people’s frustration but I do think there has been a lot of misinformation about this.”
In criticism of the Prime Minister, Bill Shorten rightly pointed out that many Australians were unable to see their families on Father’s Day due to strict border closures.
“It’s not that he doesn’t deserve to see his kids, but so does every other Australian,” the Labor frontbencher told the Nine Network.
“When people are doing it tough, you’ve got to do it tough too.”
