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The Ruby Princess fiasco: our leaders’ latest great failure not only over coronavirus, but China as a whole

2 April 2020

11:01 AM

2 April 2020

11:01 AM

Our political leaders have significantly failed to protect Australians from the Wuhan virus.

On the principle enunciated by President Truman as to where the buck stops, our politicians should accept responsibility for most of the increase in the number of infected in the community.

Sitting in what is the Premiers’ Conference (the name changed yet again to suggest innovation) the politicians completely ignored widespread public concern at the absence of proper controls on the wharves and at the airports.

Had our leaders acted with elementary common sense as they did in Taiwan and Singapore, there would have been very few cases of returning travellers...

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