Deborah Snow's September 2020 cover story, "Race of his life", profiles federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, who has gone from the disaster of siding with Peter Dutton in his failed 2018 leadership tilt to being health minister during the biggest medical crisis since the Spanish flu. Deborah is then joined in conversation by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age national affairs editor Rob Harris and Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland, in a look at how Hunt's professed regard for science and fondness for three-point plans came to the fore in the pandemic response.

Discussion starts at 43:50.

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