ttbn said- "Wilson Bayly Holms blames it squarely on Victoria's mismanagement of Covid"

Answer- Good point- Kudos ttbn.

Perhaps that is part of Premier Andrews plan to transfer assets to China- Chinese wealth redistribution. It's an interesting exercise as to how China could feature as the protagonist in a sequel of "The Vulture Fund by Stephen W. Frey". In the book terrorists use the threat of a nuclear explosion to refactor and scoop property prices.

Interesting how the CCP government can redirect money from the Chinese people to purchase foreign business.

At any rate Australian's seem even before the current Covid madness to be living beyond our means. The Government tries to fix it by immigration and other means and only succeeds in making it worse. We buy too many things that break, that only serve one purpose, that we don't use, that we don't need. Edward Bernays used the ideas of his uncle Freud to create the idea that people should be driven by emotion rather than purpose- we need to refocus on what is important or China will take us over- and all our stuff will mean nothing.

This means that children may need to play on old equipment, have less supervision by "qualified" people- probably more fun. Means less non-productive jobs that are not directly related to survival needs. Hopefully the government will reduce red tape for cottage industries such as small food production people/ businesses- perhaps having health advice guidance for example rather than restaurant inspectors. Facilitate and encourage people to be more self sufficient so that they don't need to have their hands out to the government if a crisis occurs.

I can't understand how Melbourne was judged as the most livable city- I went there once

http://www.smh.com.au/business/melbourne-judged-worlds-most-liveable-city-20110830-1jjaq.html

""Australia, with a low population density and relatively low crime rates, continues to supply some of the world's most liveable cities," said Jon Copestake, editor for the EIU survey.

Vancouver's score slipped to third after a lower rating for infrastructure, placing it below Vienna in Austria. It's the first time since 2002 that the Canadian city hasn't occupied or shared the top slot for liveability.

It seems residents have to pay for what they get, though, with another recent EIU report ranking Sydney as the sixth-most expensive city in the world, with Melbourne coming at No. 7. The survey assessed the cost of living in both cities to be about 40 per cent higher than in New York, mostly because of steep housing costs in Australia."

I guess with Julia Gillard and others "Big Australia Policy"- Australia will continue to become less livable with steep rises in housing and downward pressure on wages

Government and other restrictions discourage people from taking initiative. This has been taken to extremes when lock-downs have occurred around the world. In many instances letting people take initiative can have surprisingly beneficial results. It's better to lock down a country than within a country or region- it affects less people- etc.

I've got a younger brother who is against vaccination
as is his entire family. They're planning on visiting
us in Victoria sometime this year. This makes me somewhat
nervous. Both my husband and our family are double vaccinated
and we're going for our booster shots shortly.

How do I tell my brother that we're not keen to see them?
We don't want to take the risk.

It reminds me of the old joke.

A bloke is against vaccination. He's convinced that God
will save him. Well the bloke ends up doing of COVID.
When he get to heaven he asks - why God let him down?

God replies:

I made masks available. Social distancing was free.
I gave medical knowledge through medical doctors.
I guided the scientists who created a vaccine in
record time. You did nothing to help yourself.

What the hell else did you need?

While Foxy talks the bill is getting bigger. Get the states that fail to lock out new corona through the ports pay for the Centrelink payments through the GST.

What madness, less than 100 people in Victoria died OF Covid, the rest were on their last legs.
All the shut downs, fascist repression, police violence and stupid masking did nothing! Absolutely nothing! The computer modeling was the classic case of garbage in, garbage out. Tell me one prediction that was correct.
Anyone remember Sutton saying 300 cases a day, not on my watch! Then we went to 20,000 in one day. Nothing from you ALP idiots or the dumber LNP idiots either come to that.