The new COVID crisis shows Victoria’s public health administration is in deadly decline

With the Victorian-New South Wales border shut again and the holiday plans of tens of thousands thrown into chaos it’s not politics or even covid that dominate their thoughts — but the reality that the State they call home appears to have a barely functioning health system. 

Just ‘getting by’ between crises is hardly a basis upon which to enter 2021 — and yet it’s precisely how 2020 began for Victorians who need to rely on the public health system.

Despite all the disruption and sacrifices of last year again we have draconian regulations reimposed upon us, closed interstate highways and the young and old among thousands queuing for hours at testing stations. 

What passes for the soon to be split Department of…