‘Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he’ [proverbs 29:18] – The so called crisis council being Daniel Andrews, James Merlino, Tim Pallas, Jacinta Allan, Jenny Mikakos, Jill Hennessy, Martin Pakula and Lisa Neville obviously had no vision, no oversight, no responsibility, no management expertise and it seems no memory as all suffered inexplicable group amnesia over the refusal to use the offered ADF but instead to use private contractors costing millions of dollars and 800 lives. Failing to act in good faith is a failure to ‘keepeth the law’ with the result being confusion and chaos with no concrete ‘vision’ of returning to normal.
Once more unto the breach [a second wave of Covid] we are still stuck in minutia by being enveloped in a blame game that is both brain dead and dysfunctional but is still costing innocent lives and billions of dollars. Please don’t blame others or point to other countries misfortunes because Australia was under control with Covid 19 until Ruby Princess [28 dead] and Andrews quarantine maladministration [800 dead!].
This is a ‘management’ issue where elected politicians with little management experience pontificate from on high whilst the visionless minions try to make sense of gross stupidity and criminal mismanagement. 800 deaths and a trillion dollar debt is criminal.
There is no doubt that the Victorian labor government has been and is responsible for putting Victorians at risk through and by the mal administration of the so called second wave. Not only though as there is still the ramping up of unsustainable debt, not having a clear vision for Victoria, selling our sovereignty to a rogue power and failing to even make common sense. Andrews is the self appointed leader of that dysfunction but not the only culprit. The ‘gang of 8’ comes to immediate mind as a group of senior government people so far out of their comfort zone that collective amnesia has set in - as ably demonstrated at ‘the enquiry’.
No one is to blame so it seems for 800 deaths and a trillion dollar debt. No, not me, can’t remember, no one told me, my computer crashed, was sick that day, the dog ate the memo, aliens stole the email. Sadly, these are responsible adults holding down key management jobs yet they come across as 10 year old kids determined to get out of trouble by any obfuscation or fabrication possible.
It’s pathetic but worse it’s ‘adult’ pathetic with known consequences. Acting in bad faith doesn’t even come close. Mindless narcissistic drivel but with enormous ramifications for their victims – us!
It’s easy to devolve to minutia during periods of brain overload, as a matter of fact sometimes necessary to keep our sanity. But, this is not what we pay our leaders for. We pay them to actually think strategically. Simple. Shouty is not good.
This last week has been all about minutia and finger pointing over small things. Good television but led by pontificating idiots focused on blame shifting away from themselves.
May I repeat, this current so called second wave has been caused by the collective labor government and bureaucratic affiliates with each identified player adding their useless two bob’s worth. Let’s focus on 800 deaths and a trillion dollar debt instead of who said what to whom at 3:27pm. Or, is that too hard? Simple statistics show huge flaws in management and rhetoric.
It is a management problem!
Andrews has been and is wallowing in a sea of ineptitude. Not only are his shortcomings on show but it seems all concerned are also wallowing. This second wave should never have occurred yet it did because of sheer incompetence by a whole gaggle of politicians, bureaucrats, advisors and public officials. “I am too senior and beyond reproach”. Yeah, right.
The solution? We, the affected, demand Andrews and his cohorts apply some degree of intelligence to fixing the mess they created. Not only Covid19 but the debt burden and the sale of Victoria to a foreign power. Can they do this? No. They need help in the form of real and proven leaders from all sides of politics. Think what Don Argus did for Coles Myer after a management import created disaster. A calming strategic influence – right time right place.
I mean really, a curfew no one wanted or thought necessary [except Andrews], draconian lockdowns the same professionals thought unnecessary and a political ‘roadmap’ which was and is a joke to any business or indeed any thinking person.
I would be happier if it was the same Mexicans who invaded Telstra management and tried to screw the company before an Australian steadied the ship [Thodey]. In that case one could just ship them back to their home hole in the ground but we have an elected Government bent on staying in power by any means.
Therefore, we are stuck with the labor collective for a while albeit they must accept support from the real adults lest we all sink. Adults who think strategically such as Kennett, Keating, Costello and Gillard.
Oblivion is but a small step when good people fail to act - 800 lives lost and a trillion dollar debt is not political playtime. When the country divides, political leaders have failed. Simple, but watch the fools try and shoot the messenger.
It’s a shame that the pandemic response is but one of Andrews failures. A big one, but just one.
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