We have a crisis of good governance – and it’s not just in Victoria

As weeks go, the one just past has been a shocker — and not just for Victorians still in the grip of Covid lockdown.

Taxpayers nationwide are reeling from report after report this week of shoddy (or shonky) standards of governance in gambling, the postal service and even in financial regulation itself.  

All this against a background of subterranean governance performances by the Victorian Department of Health & Human Services, the banks, the aged care sector and even the procurement ‘processes’ for Australia’s new submarines.

Australians have been witness to a litany of what appear to be shameful private and public sector governance failings. Despite all legislative efforts to curb board, executive and public…