Morrison’s Covid measures a ‘grotesque overreaction’ to a ‘relatively mild pandemic’ says Tony Abbott

Former PM tells podcast he got vaccinated so as not to give anyone ‘an excuse for keeping us locked up any longer than was absolutely necessary’

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Former prime minister Tony Abbott, has described the Morrison government’s Covid response as a “grotesque overreaction” to a “relatively mild pandemic”, adding he reluctantly got vaccinated because he “didn’t want anyone to have an excuse for keeping us locked up any longer than was absolutely necessary”.

Abbott, who also served as a health minister under the Howard government, clarified he was not opposed to vaccinations but used a feminist slogan – “my body, my choice” – to voice his opposition to vaccine mandates in a podcast hosted by Graham Hood, a former leader of the anti-vaccine mandate movement.

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