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Five fixes for our failed state – and why they won’t occur

9 September 2020

5:00 AM

9 September 2020

5:00 AM

For any Australian not living in Victoria, particularly Melbourne, it’s impossible to understand what’s going on. The highpitched hysteria emanating from the state is effectively the cry of a people who’ve now realised that they are living in a thirdworldlike failed state.   

The closing of Victoria by the Andrews Labor government is the direct result of one thinga chaotic collapse of Victoria’s health administration—in other words, state failure. 

The evidence is stark.  

The hotel quarantine mess has proven not to be a oneoff event but rather the first example of failed health administration.

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