The disaster over the pandemic has been made worse by the egregious incompetence and dishonesty of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews.
The draconian Covid-19 lockdown measures just lately imposed by Labor Premier Andrews – dubbed Kim Jong-Dan by critics – have understandably attracted widespread media criticism. Social distancing is critical, however how can the nighttime curfew or Andrews’ try and impose a 12-month state of emergency be justified?
It’s now clear that the second wave of Covid-19 in Victoria (which noticed new circumstances reaching 1,000 a day) occurred due to the appalling incompetence of the Andrews authorities and public service businesses of their dealing with of the resort quarantine and call tracing regimes.
Andrews, nevertheless, merely refuses to just accept this, and because the second wave emerged he has advised a collection of lies in a pathetic try and keep away from accountability for the debacle he created.
First, Andrews alleged that Prime Minister Scott Morrison didn’t provide Victoria federal authorities help to determine and run its resort quarantine and call tracing regimes. The allegation was unfaithful. Federal help was supplied, however Andrews refused it.
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The premier then blamed well being officers and the police for the all-encompassing draconian lockdown regime instituted by his authorities. This has additionally been proven to be fully unfaithful. Andrews and his authorities have been the architects of the regime.
Andrews’ clear dishonesty ought to come as no shock.
The latest Adem Somyurek department stacking scandal uncovered the organisational corruption on the coronary heart of the Victorian Labor Celebration. Somyurek was a buddy of Andrews, who personally appointed him to cupboard. Somyurek engaged in intensive department stacking as a way to be sure that candidates acceptable to power-brokers throughout the Labor Celebration have been preselected for federal and state parliament.
What was Andrews’ response when the media uncovered this? He stated he was fully unaware of Somyurek’s actions, and an inner Labor Celebration enquiry into the matter was established. In the meantime, corruptly preselected Labor politicians proceed to sit down on the federal government benches in Victoria.
Andrews has additionally established a judicial enquiry into the monumental failure of the resort quarantine and call tracing regimes that precipitated the second wave in Victoria.
No enquiry is required, nevertheless, to find the basic cause for these failures.
They occurred as a result of in Victoria, underneath the Andrews authorities, public service departments have been corrupted by ideologies of identification politics, “social inclusion,” “gender equality” and “range.” The dictates of ideological purity have supplanted conventional public service objectives of competence and achieved rational outcomes.
This isn’t an summary criticism.
When the Victorian Departments of Well being and Human Companies and Jobs, Precincts and Areas put a personal safety agency accountable for the resort quarantine regime, the agency was chosen as a result of it fulfilled the federal government’s “social inclusion” hiring necessities. The truth that the agency has no expertise in quarantine issues was not regarded as a related consideration – therefore the following debacle.
As tutorial and political commentator Bella D’Abrera famous just lately: “The federal government of Daniel Andrews seems to be working in a distinct sort of actuality during which it’s blatantly extra involved with social engineering than it’s healthcare”.
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Andrews has been premier since 2014, and he has politicized the Victorian public service to a level beforehand unimaginable. And he’s positively not for turning.
Simply this week, amidst the present disaster, his authorities proudly introduced the appointment of a Public Sector Equality Commissioner whose well-paid process it will likely be to attract up gender equality “motion plans.” The tons of of Victorians who’ve been contaminated throughout the second wave will little question discover this splendidly comforting.
Sadly, corruption in Victoria extends past the federal government and the general public service. As an ongoing Royal Fee has made clear, the stench of corruption additionally permeates the Victorian police drive.
Proof has proven that the Victoria Police used a barrister specialising in prison regulation as a police informant for years. Whereas representing quite a few Victorian crime figures, she gave details about their actions to the police. Many who have been convicted at the moment are in search of to have their responsible verdicts overturned.
Excessive-ranking law enforcement officials, some nonetheless serving within the drive, condoned and inspired this fully improper scheme. Their actions make the Chicago police drive throughout the Capone period appear to be a mannequin of moral rectitude.
When the Melbourne Herald-Solar newspaper tried to show the scandal, the police obtained suppression orders from the courts that prevented the paper from reporting on the matter for 2 years.
Solely when the Australian Excessive Courtroom intervened and put an finish to this farce have been the information in a position to be disclosed to the Victorian public.
After the Excessive Courtroom ruling, Andrews reluctantly established a Royal Fee into the affair, however he has not but taken any motion towards serving law enforcement officials who have been concerned.
This, after all, is similar police drive that just lately made Gestapo-type arrests of atypical Victorians for breaching Andrews’ heavy-handed lockdown rules.
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What then, if something, will be performed to carry Andrews and his authorities to account?
Enterprise house owners whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the latest lockdown have foreshadowed a category motion towards the federal government. That, nevertheless, won’t harm Andrews or his political cronies. Even when the motion is profitable, Victorian taxpayers will foot the invoice.
Authorized proceedings underneath Victoria’s industrial manslaughter laws have additionally been mooted, however such proceedings will face authorized difficulties.
Neither is political retribution probably. An election will not be due till late 2022, and the opposition Liberal Celebration in Victoria is faction-ridden, ineffective and with no credible chief. That’s the reason, earlier than the Covid-19 disaster hit, Andrews was probably the most well-liked politicians in Australia.
Very like former UK chief Tony Blair (who he very a lot resembles), Andrews is extraordinarily adept at coping with the media. He refuses to talk to journalists who’re essential of him, and his every day Covid-19 press conferences are grasp lessons in obfuscation and evasion.
The most probably situation is that Victoria will limp on in direction of failed state standing (collapsing economic system, incompetent and/or corrupt authorities, no efficient political opposition and growing social instability) underneath Andrews’ tutelage – and that a while within the subsequent two years (as has been prompt within the media this week), he’ll retire from politics.
In different phrases, Andrews will get off scot-free.
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