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To abandon vaccination targets is to abandon the mantle of leadership

  • Written by Peter Gahan, Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne

The Australian government has abandoned its ambitious targets to have the adult population vaccinated by the end of October. It has, in fact, abandoned having any target.

We all sometimes find ourselves in tough positions and just want to call it a day. But this decision is not what we should expect from the nation’s leaders when so much is...

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