"This was a unique situation for them and they were being asked to do things they had never had to do before, so they lacked any guidelines. Public servants without guidelines can and do make arbitrary decisions which may or may not turn out to be for the best."
Funny how public servants in other states were not similarly helpless without any "guidelines"
Even if the Victorian leadership were found to have eaten their own children you'd find some way to try to defend it.
