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Sorry states of play

The pandemic has exposed how inept state governments are

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

For most Australians, I suspect, one of the big discoveries of 2020 would have been the extent to which our country is still a collection of separate states. Despite the slogan of being ‘all in it together’ and the creation of the so-called National Cabinet, an ineffectual PR exercise if ever there was one, when it came to dealing with the pandemic it was every state (and territory) for itself.

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