Holbrook, Carolyn, James Walter & Paul Strangio: Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?

Carolyn Holbrook, James Walter & Paul Strangio

Is the COVID vaccine rollout the greatest public policy failure in recent Australian history?, The Conversation, 21 July 2021

There are three principal factors for measuring public policy success or failure.

The first is an assessment of how successfully the policy action ameliorates the problem it seeks to solve …

Second, an assessment of policy success or failure must consider the significance of the policy …

Third, we must take account of the reputational enhancement or damage ensuing from a particular course of action …

Applying these measures, we can say that, to date, the Morrison government’s approach to the COVID vaccination rollout fares badly on all three criteria.

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