Morrison's urgent manoeuvring on coronavirus is atonement for summer's bushfire shambles | Katharine Murphy

As the PM who likes to style himself as the Generation X John Howard knows all too well: what good is a conservative who can't keep Australians safe?

Have you heard the Morrison government has a plan?

The Plan(R) was very hard to miss, given the prime minister used the word "plan" or "plans" more than 20 times when he answered his first Dorothy Dixer in question time on Thursday. Lest any ambiguity remain, Peter Dutton went on to utter "plan" another 16 times if you happened to be counting, and our indefatigable live blogger, Amy Remeikis, bless her, was counting.