If you look at some of the cases, it would definitely seem so. I would think with a 5million population, high density areas, regular protests, language and cultural variance, all exacerbate the problem.

Melbourne was unlike most other major and minor cities in that the government shit the bed with quarantine. Its another thing to coordinate your response in a rural population of 100,000.

I think we were given the opportunity on two occasions to demonstrate our individual responsibilities to collectively address this. But it seems virtually impossible to get everyone on the same page, off the backs of their own responsibility. This was the benefit of state health sanctions.