Originally Posted by
GaryGnu
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Perhaps a Federal/National Government deprived of the ability to devolve responsibility, power and blame to non-existent State Governments would be more likely to step up and solve the next COVID scale problem that comes along.
Are you saying taking over responsibility for immigration and quarantine as they are constitutionally obligated to and making the expedited rollout of this vaccine their number one priority over the next few months are things the current Federal Government can only do if you remove any other body they can lay blame on and delegate responsibility to, until there’s no one left to blame but themselves?
Sounds like a pretty pathetic government. You could probably apply the things you said about states being irrelevant in a time of mass air travel, digital communication and globalisation to the nation state as well.
I keep hearing thats it’s time for Australia to become one, to act as one instead of 8 divided entities. If that’s the case then the one who should be putting in place that idea of Australia acting as one is the leader of Australia. Where is he? It’s well past time he stepped up and applied some real leadership skills. But as the bushfires showed he’s got no idea how to lead in a crisis and just delegates responsibility to others. Scotty from Marketing for real. It’s like every lesson of airline command training is being thrown out the window.
C’mon, act as a leader, take responsibility for international quarantine and get this vaccine here ASAP!