What you described as "a lack of leadership and competence" could be rephrased to / cognitively reappraised as "quite unlucky after making some quick decisions with imperfect information during a rapidly unfolding and unprecedented global disaster where line ball decisions matter a lot". The question of this thread really boils down to how are the voters appraising it? People with an agenda will try to spin it in a way that suits them, which is why I am not surprised by the usual suspects in this thread. Still, it seems at the moment what Andrews is doing is garnering a fair bit of support from the community:I like your last sentence, that reviews only happen when mistakes have consequences. Another way of looking at things is to say that consequences highlight mistakes.
The lack of leadership and competence from the Andrews government have been highlighted only because of the consequences. He talks a good game, and that seems to be enough given the lack of any opposition.
Would any corporate CEO survive with the same track record as Dan Andrews? No chance.
Essential poll: Australians back strong surveillance and banning all international flights to curb Covid
More than half favour compulsory tracking bracelets and would support quarantine in dedicated facilities rather than recovery at home
www.theguardian.com
Victorians in strong support of most Stage 4 restrictions - Roy Morgan Research
A special Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey on six of Victoria’s Stage 4 restrictions showed large majorities of Victorians in support of five of the six restrictions while views are split more evenly on whether Melburnians should be able to visit the homes of immediate family members.
www.roymorgan.com
'It's got to be a big stick': Melburnians, perhaps surprisingly, are all for lockdown
Despite some pushback from business, the public is solidly behind what is seen as a necessary curtailment of civil liberties
www.theguardian.com
Also, this poll from Roy Morgan is interesting given the divisiveness of Victorian policy in the media. People are not really interested in golf nor protests. This was courtesy of someone else on social media.
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I mentioned Gladys earlier because it was much the same thing - a bad policy, in hindsight, led to a bad decision. At the time it was seen as major cluster**** but only now do we understand that the consequences were relatively trivial, and only because of what unfolded later in Victoria. Indeed, the consequences we're seeing in Vic right now could easily be dwarfed by something that happens in, say, three months somewhere else (or in fact much of the the rest of the world right now if anyone wants to pay attention to that). But for a totally hypothetical example, let's imagine something ridiculous like a big event held in a jam-packed sports stadium named after a big telecommunications company, that leads to several thousand community transmissions.
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