The Australian’s Greg Sheridan says throughout the coronavirus pandemic Victorian Premier DanielAndrewsMP was the “most authoritarian premier imposing the most severe lockdown” while overseeing the most incompetent quarantine hotels.
The Australian’s Greg Sheridan says throughout the coronavirus pandemic Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was the “most authoritarian premier imposing the most severe lockdown” while overseeing the most incompetent quarantine hotels. The state has recorded 191 cases in the past 24 hours, forcing the Andrews government to lockdown five million people in the entire Melbourne metropolitan area and one regional shire.
“The ABC of course doesn’t subject state politics to any scrutiny, so he just gets away without any consequence,” Mr Sheridan said. He said the premier’s claim that people shopping could put others at risk of dying from the deadly disease, was never “translated to ‘if you demonstrate people will die’”. “This is a really catastrophic failure by the Andrews government”.
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