Each of Australia’s states and territories will follow their own back-to-plans rather than a nationally-consistent approach that Prime Minister Scott Morrison had sought prior to the National Cabinet meeting on Thursday. “Operational plans for the return to schools will be being announced individually by each jurisdiction over the course of the next few days and some will make their announcements, indeed, today,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra. “Those school operational plans will be consistent with the principles that we agreed last week.” Morrison said there had been a lot of discussion by the leaders of Australia’s states and territories at the National Cabinet about tailoring their back-to-school arrangements amidst the wave of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus sweeping the country. “So states are tailoring that regarding their opening arrangements. But they will be consistent with the principles of getting schools open and keeping schools open,” he said. “That is …