Whatever the supply questions (and the question of whether there should have been more contracts signed is for another day), the vaccination of aged care residents was contracted out, the delivery of vaccines around the country including to doctors surgeries was contracted out to DHL and Linfox (rather than Australia Post), and the vaccination of the general populace was going to be done through the quasi private sector capacities of the GP network.
What could possibly go wrong when the full resources of the private sector had been engaged?
Well, apparently quite a lot. And it looks like the federal government will have to politely ask the states to help use their public resources to get us out of a jam, just as they did with quarantine facilities.
Public good and private fail as parcel bomb explodes
The government had to call in the states to rescue its vaccine delivery, just as a government corporate entity imploded.
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Life used to be much simpler for all of us when everyone observed a few basic “givens” in Australian politics. These include that the Coalition parties think the public sector is an inefficient abomination, in whatever form it manifests itself, and that Labor thinks the opposite.
Events of the past week show how topsy-turvy all that has become.
Christine Holgate at the Senate inquiry: “I have done nothing wrong.”
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