Reference :- Sky News anchor , Rita Panahi , may have contradicted herself ...a bit .

Reference :-   Rita Panahi , usually a fan of private enterprise , complained that  the Victorian government had used a private security company to supervise folk in lockdown .  The security people failed in their duty of care . 

Indeed Rita , that was a monumental screw up , so I hear .  Never underestimate the sex appeal of a chap in a uniform  , they always say .  And it's quite likely that other inconvenient viruses may have been transmitted while all that saucy behaviour was going on .

Anyway , you need to shore up your support for private enterprise before folk start to think you are becoming a " Marxist " ( that is the ideology we demonize to distract from the real villains these days , I believe ).

Here at the Sky Reply , we have been thinking about how you can  deal with your 
critics .  Monte ( the motorcyclist )  said you could point out that one small dodgy security firm should not reflect badly on the huge corporations that buttress the walls of free market capitalism .

But then , Ken junior reminded us that those big companies , and the private  banks , screw us so badly that the entire world is plunged into a financial crisis every few years .  In fact , they screw up so often that terms  like   " recession "  "depression "  " downturn "  " economic crisis "   " housing bubble " and " crash "  frequent popular parlance .  Along with other terms  , like " corruption "  " overcharging "  " tax haven "  " million dollar fines "   " insider trading "  " price fixing "  " litigation "   and on and on .   Ken junior does make a good point .

But we have another strategy up our sleeve .   As you well know Rita , the default position is always to blame  the government , and it works really well .   It works so well that after governments bailed out the oligarchs during the GFC   ( to the tune of trillions )  all we heard about was the rise in government debt occasioned by " inefficient " governments .

So Rita , this is what we suggest .   You should not say that the Andrew's government made a mistake by not supervising the lockdown themselves , and contracting a dodgy private security firm for the job .   That gives the impression that you believe the government is more competent .   Why not say that the Andrew's government should have employed a private human resources company to decide which security firm to hire ?   

Ken junior said he reckons there must be at least one firm that isn't dodgy  . Though I wasn't sure if he was talking about the security firms or the human resources ones .

There is no need to thank us for our advice .

Your charming voice on the tele is all the thanks we need .  

  Your comrade , Ken