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Leading article Australia

The Peta Principle

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

In 1969, Canadian academic Laurence Peter defined what came to be known as the Peter Principle: a person in an organisation keeps getting promoted until he lacks the skills to be a success or, as Professor Peter famously put it, rises to his own level of incompetence.

In Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews, the longer his state’s lockdown agony endures, it becomes clear he has well and truly surpassed his own level of incompetence.

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