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The Australian Government Had One Job, and It Failed!

The Australian Government Had One Job, and It Failed!

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Dara Macdonald
Aug 13, 2021
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The Australian Government Had One Job, and It Failed!
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Australia, being an island, had only one job to do when the pandemic hit - quarantine international arrivals - and it failed. 

For all the accolades that foreign countries have paid to Australia’s COVID-19 response, the competition (if it was one) was rigged from the start. All the Australian government had to do was quarantine people properly. But the q…

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