alt Hacker NewsThis is a story about non-compliance. One hopes the Aus government is going to take some sort of enforcement action. If _that_ fails, then you could claim limited success or failure.
Presumably you wouldn't call laws against murder a failure because there are murders.
US prohibition was a failure. Mass noncompliance. Alcohol was and is popular! Many ordinary people hated the laws.
Murder is not popular. Murderers are thankfully rare, and they don’t comply with the laws on murder. The masses do.
When you make popular things illegal, you erode respect for the law and turn people against the government. You can (maybe) get away with this when times are good, but when times are not good you are doubling your problems. There is a spillover into other kinds of criminality as law-abiding people decide that the law may not matter as much as it once did. Ignore this at your own peril.