At a time when Victorians should be celebrating the end of a horror year, thousands have cancelled their holiday plans and scrambled back over the border amid confusing health directives around border closures and quarantine. Those who did not make the New Year’s Day deadline are now stranded interstate indefinitely.  

It seems that the dark days of government incompetency and inexplicable health directives are far from over. 

What is apparent by the Victorian government’s reactionary response to a handful of new COVID cases in the state is that it has little faith in its ability to manage and trace the virus. 

It has...