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Re:Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lockdow... by legostormtroopr on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:18PM (#28014340)
And health is a state responsibility - yet people were all too willing to throw Scotty from Marketing under the bus on that.

The fact is the Australian federation model has an odd separation of responsibilities which makes this challenge uniquely difficult for Australia.

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Re:Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lockdow... by jackvalentine on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:25PM (#28014658)
> And health is a state responsibility - yet people were all too willing to throw Scotty from Marketing under the bus on that.

The state governments haven't failed on health though? The federal government explicitly declined to let the states run the vaccination program in the way that they wanted and instead went GP-first (GPs being beholden effectively to the feds).

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Re:Australian Troops Will Help Enforce a Coronavirus Lockdow... by octodog on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:22AM (#28017460)
> And health is a state responsibility - yet people were all too willing to throw Scotty from Marketing under the bus on that.

This is a nothing statement. The state based health services have generally been very well run, with the exception of contact tracing in Victoria during 2020.

The federal health responsibilities (vaccines, quarantine and PPE provisioning) have all been spectacular failures.

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