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Why Victoria, virtually alone in the Western world, put a COVID government back into power is a mystery.
The most locked-down and abused state globally appeared to have developed Stockholm syndrome, in which a captured person falls in love with his or her captor.
This is a survival mechanism. If all hope is lost in your former life, then your psychology must adjust to the new.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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