ANALYSIS: 'Open faster': The Morrison Government's message to Daniel Andrews
But Kristen Rundle, from Melbourne University's Law School, is not so surprised, given the often opaque accountability situations created by contracting out, increasingly a default practice of governments around the country.
"The failures in this case underscore that choices about who delivers such government functions, and how, matter to those directly affected by them."Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.The Premier says Victoria is "so, so close" to defeating its second wave of coronavirus.
Andrews' supporters aren't too preoccupied with the state government's mistakes. They believe he has put health first . Many of Andrews' strongest critics are those who believe the economy and people's livelihoods have not received sufficient consideration generally in the pandemic. They are outraged at the economic costs of Victoria's second wave, and at the slowness of the reopening.
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