National Maternity Hospital storm has taken Harris by surprise

The focus on getting the National Maternity Hospital over the line is the type of tunnel vision that almost always puts us in minefields

"What is the political mindset,” my editor wants to know, of a minister “seized of the kind of controversy that has blown up about the future of the National Maternity Hospital?” In the particular instance of the bushfire that has erupted about the ownership and governance of the new National Maternity Hospital, did the Minister for Health not foresee the gathering storm?

Has the minister been taken by surprise or has he, in ...