Victoria's roadmap out of lockdown is the wrong approach. Here's what good public policy looks like
- Written by Marc Stears, Professor and Director, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
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In the early months of the pandemic, Australia’s public policy response to COVID-19 was widely celebrated across the world. The missteps and extended lockdowns in Victoria recently, though, shows how at least one state has slipped from being a gold standard.
So, what has gone wrong?
Effective public policy-making in a pandemic...