By three months the response reverted to a Queensland government responsibility.
And what about government responsibility?
Financing education was primarily a government responsibility, supplemented by the private sector.
John D. Echeverria, an expert on environmental law, referred to the process as "outsourcing government responsibility".
But that would require courage, which, like government responsibility, is now in short supply.
Private efforts are immensely laudable, but this is a government responsibility.
"It is a government responsibility, not a football one," the former Scotland manager Craig Brown says.
Especially if the flood was caused by failed levees, a government responsibility?
He is also under increasing pressure to suspend collective government responsibility in order to allow ministers to campaign to leave.
The government seems clear that it has evidence of Assad government responsibility for the attack on eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
It determined responsibility in three cases and said evidence in three others pointed to government responsibility but was not conclusive.
