Why did we ever think the government wouldn’t stuff up the rollout — or that consultants would actually help?
Based on its previous form, the government responsible for disasters like the COVIDSafe app and aged care was always going to botch the vaccine rollout.
As it turned out, the COVIDSafe model of maladministration ended up applying to the vaccine rollout: handing large sums of money to consulting firms to produce an outcome woefully short of that claimed by the government, which seemed more focused on having announcements than producing a working and effective product.
UPDATE FROM PETER COSTELLO's THE AGE
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What's Not said- "Some time before or after XMAS. Morrison is now even a smaller version of himself still promising. No, hoping waving and drowning!!
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GAMING THE SYSTEM
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