For any Australian not living in Victoria, particularly Melbourne, it’s impossible to understand what’s going on. The high–pitched hysteria emanating from the state is effectively the cry of a people who’ve now realised that they are living in a third–world–like failed state.   

The closing of Victoria by the Andrews Labor government is the direct result of one thing—a chaotic collapse of Victoria’s health administration—in other words, state failure. 

The evidence is stark.  

The hotel quarantine mess has proven not to be a one–off event but rather the first example of failed health administration.