When Scott Morrison muses about crossroads, he's really pondering his own prime ministership

With close to a million Australians unemployed, the government's next run of decisions will need to be right, or at least right enough

Scott Morrison has been musing out loud about crossroads. The brief foray into symbolism was prompted by the cluster of coronavirus infections at the Crossroads hotel in Casula in New South Wales. So far, state authorities seem to be on top of that outbreak. Victoria continues to battle its second wave.

Morrison touched on the crossroads to contrast success (touch wood) in NSW and struggle in Victoria - a delicate exercise for a prime minister who wants that contrast squarely in the public domain, but not forcefully enough to blow up his relationship with the Victorian Labor premier, Daniel Andrews.