A part from the general mismanagement (quarantine, contact tracing, aged care) there has been a complete lack of consistent strategy. You can't just change the

A part from the general mismanagement (quarantine, contact tracing, aged care) there has been a complete lack of consistent strategy. You can't just change the strategy every 6 weeks. NZ went for elimination from the outset so when the virus came back in Auckland several weeks ago it was a no-brainer to immediately lock down again (although now they seem to have shifted to a suppression strategy, let's see how that goes for them...). Sweden went for a flatten the curve(ish) strategy which meant that they did not automatically enact a lockdown when things started heating up in terms of case numbers/deaths because they were confident enough at the time that their health care system would cope. Those are two very different strategies with different outcomes but they were consistent and thereby achieved their respective goals. Victoria (and Australia as a whole) has gone from flatten the curve to suppression and now to elimination. If Victoria had chosen elimination after the first flare up back at the end of May, then that would have most probably been achieved by now.