Irrelevant?
John Silvester’s opinion piece in The Age nails it:
For a leader who maintains her mobile phone remained on 24 hours a day it is simply remarkable that it was silent for three crucial hours on Black Saturday.
From 6pm until 9pm - while she was at dinner and later at home in North Melbourne - no-one from the crisis centre bothered to contact her.
They did not seek instructions, counsel or advice. By implication they saw her as irrelevant.
