"We all have to make a personal decision about what we're going to do," he said.
Earlier this week, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the community need to accelerate its rate of vaccine takeup before international travel would become a possibility.had damaged public confidence in the vaccine, but he said everyone eligible should get vaccinated. Professor Sutton said he understood why people may be hesitant about vaccines when there was no COVID-19 in the community, but added that might not always be the case."In the next six months we will have new variants of concern, that might be even more transmissible, that might evade vaccines," he said.
Are you mad or ignorant? Hotel quarantine has caused lockdowns in almost every state. It has cost Australia billions. We need purpose built quarantine stations for the foreseeable future.
What would mr I just stepped out if a horror movie know!
But it isn't . How many breakouts have there been already? It is not the job of the states to organise quarantine. It is the Federal Govt's job. There are only a minimum amount of places in Hotel quarantine which are not made for this purpose at all. Dutton you are a twirp.
Haha! I SAY IT WORKS !!! And it works! In this corner, who's to say OTHERWISE!! HAHA
Yep the federal government has so much faith in the hotel system that they are banning Australian citizens from coming home from India and threatening them with jail.
Never get the gold standard from a LNP goverment NBN Fibre to the knod good enough for Australia's citizens.
Dutton you don’t get it. We need a five year plan now.
God, give him a moustache and he'd look just like Hitler
We have been into this pandemic now for over 12 months and it sounds like this will be with us for a long while yet. We need a better solution to the hotels in cities to take care of people in Quarantine. There a lots of Australians all over the world yet to get home
How can Peter Dutton talk about hotel quarantine? He's been minister of somany different areas, I wonder whether the Fed Gov knows what he's best in! Now they're talking that Defence will be going to someone else, how come? What IS HIS SPECIALITY? NOT COVID, NOT DEFENCE!
The hotel quarantine doesn't work! People, coming from Covid sites can carry Covid w/out showing signs! Then they're surprised that it's still given from one to another. If hotels work, why doesn't the NT have them? They know H Springs is better & Fed Gov knows!
Of course he dismisses it. What else would you expect from an egotist.
Don’t look at Covid Vaccine mess look here I’m talking tough
No it is not Mr Dutton.
Oh yeh it’s so great we’re now banning citizens from returning home! Oh well, “we” didn’t vote in a government, we voted in creeps to redistribute wealth upwards, nothing more. WTF would they know about governing....🤷🏻♀️
Scott Morrison has failed in getting the quarentine facilities and vaccines and all Australians nack to Australia prior to thw C19 pandemic ...or so i hear this from ALP 14 months after the pandemic started. What where they (ALP) doing in Jan 2020.... allegations?
Idiot
What would mash tatties know anyway
Why is Dutton speaking, what does karenandrewsmp say?
working very well at deflecting blame for a Commonwealth responsibility away from the Commonwealth. Surprised there aren't any liberal party donors looking to run quarantine facilities at a massive profit.
If it's working so well why are we banning returning travellers from some countries? Do as I say not as I do? auspol Dutton
Australia’s Defense Monster. auspol
Minister for defence says what about something nowhere near his remit? AND ABC actually report it.
“Working very well” Crap! If the new strains get loose as has been the case in all recent outbreaks it could be the end of our relative free status. Just do what you are elected to do, build a safe quarantine facility in each capitol city of Australia. Enough politics.
Quarantine is not luxury accomodation. $43000 per room puts it into five star facility. A very nice mining camp style single dwelling with tree lined avenues and gardens with plenty of outdoor exercise areas could be done for a lot less.
If they believed it was 'working very well', they'd be allowing Australians to return from India.
I ponder 🤔 ,are all those that support something so clearly not fit for purpose vested in in its continuation?
Why have we been hearing so much from Dutton lately? Morrison has let him off the leash. Interesting.
Whatever he dismisses must be per se a great idea.
oh really?
Well he would! CompetenceMissingInTheLNP
When covid escapes hotel quarantine 'Hotel quarantine doesn't work, not purpose built, it's all Dan's fault, off with his head!!!' When Labor wants to build adequate facilities to bring Aussies home safely and they don't want to pay 'Hotel system working very well...'🙄🙄🙄🤡🤡🤡
How would he know, and how is it up to him? When it was up to him (quarantine, Ruby Princess) he went into hiding.
marxdeane They don't call him spud for nothing.
Bullsh*t, I'll never stay in one of these hotel they are using ie, Pan Pacific, they will be stuffed after C19 riddle with germs
I simply can’t engage with evil. He makes my skin crawl.
How can he not see the Petri Dish effect of Air-conditioned Holiday Accomodation? Very Easily
How running scared is the coalition of Victoria’s Labour Party that they have dutton making crazy sense regarding the hotel quarantine system,this from a man who is responsible for the Ruby Princess mess
Why are you giving PeterDutton_MP airplay? - he’s Defence Minister NOT Home Affairs and not responsible for our borders.
No it’s not. There are thousands of stranded Australians desperate to get home. Federal government abdicating its duty.
can someone tell me what Dutton has done in his career? .. everything I’ve read has him as incompetent, yet he’s still around?
Just a liberal.
Dutton just says NO to everything. It’s how he rolls.
He is the defence minister. Does he not have a war to prepare? For the next elections? Back in your box PressThatButton
Why is Dutton even commenting on quarantine? he is no longer the Minister for Home Affairs and this is not a Defence matter.
Dutton is a fuckwit
marxdeane Is there a state where hotel quarantine hasn't failed? Hotel quarantine exists because there is no longer federal infrastructure to deal with a pandemic. Our constitution (§51) puts quarantine in federal hands. The feralgovt is floundering & failing Australians. auspol
Dutton ...irrelevant ...nobody listens to what has to say..😱
Well, it's working for the Federal Government because they don't have to take responsibility for it.
Define “very well”...
Our most illustrious leader, Deng XiaoDutton.
Not clever is he?
It’s not up to him ...
This the guy that gets offended by plants?
OGRE ! You grow into your personality !
A msg for PeterDutton_MP
Imagine that face going in for a kiss 😱
WHO warned a few years back, believe after the bird flu pandemic that quarantine facilities to be established for future proofing. Singapore was the ONLY country to take up the advice seriously. When will our politicians learn?
Why does he remind me of a mummified Egyptian mummy?
marxdeane What a featureless clown, is there anything between those ears
If the WA and QLD govt’s weren’t so hysterical and always overreacting, we’d realise that these small outbreaks can easily be handled without a lockdown. The handling of outbreaks in Sydney has been very successful and there’s been no lockdowns
Victoria is the shame of Australia, the only way they stop the covid19 spread was to imprison the whole state in their homes.....meanwhile in NSW superior contact tracing wins.
How on earth did Howard Springs do a large expansion which cost $54 million but Victoria needs between $200-700m to convert an existing site? The Gov is right to reject this- it is ridiculous. Cue the Fox family stepping in to build it ‘at cost’ (with undisclosed exp thrown in).
Says the guy who did sweet Fk all when the Ruby Princess sailed on in....
Hotel Quarantine working very well...at being able to blame the states for failures in hotel quarantine.
Dutton dismisses anything that requires him to do any work
Federal Government last year: Victoria's hotel quarantine system is clearly not working. They need to fix it. Victoria: OK, we want to build a quarantine hub, but we'll need some funding first. Federal Government: Nah, you don't need it. HQ is working fine. Make up your minds.
Dutton. FFS.
We're decentralising currency/finances and technology easily enough. Next stop politics.
Yeah sure it is all working fine
Harry Potter villain really has very little to offer in the grander scheme of things.
Dutton is a absolute wanker!! Just generally, not specifically regarding this topic
Oh I thought he is Defence Minister not Health Minister.
Let's just wait and watch shall we?
Old cop giving medical advice.
Doesnt care
How can anybody say this travesty of system is working well when the government is sitting on its hand while thousands of Australians what to come home. This system is completely inadequate and needs to extended to address the needs of all citizens home and abroad.
Atta boy, bury your bald head in the sand, you can shoot cannon balls through the current hotel quarantine system. Read the official reports fool.
Strange? I've not seen him VISITING the 'very well run' quarantine hotels to congratulate them on the really great job they are doing. Perhaps that would instill EVEN more confidence in them?!
Judging from the responses here, AU must be a shitshow, riddled with COVID.
What land does he live in horrible man
What a knob!
Quarantine works well, unless Manchurian Dan isn't involved.
Surely this is not within the purview of the Defence Minister? Or is Spud the Minister for Everything?
It is?
VOTE THE BUMS OUT
Wtf does Spud do? Besides undermine Labor states and Proud Boys car advertisements?
Go. Go Dutton, go Morrison, just leave us. Keep playing politics instead of listening to medics. Had enough. Liberal Party please leave this nation alone.
Of course he does
Compared to cruise ships, duds got a point.
Would not place this grub in charge of a public toilet let alone a minister of anything.
Hahaha. Easy to dismiss whatever Dutts says.
I dismissed Dutton a long, long time ago. There's just nothing good about him. He's a pox on Australia.
No thanks to the federal government. Not sure who represents tourism, business and farmers these days
We have another PM or is Scott Morrison getting Dutton to bat for him. One minute Dutton is home affairs minister and now defence he shouldn't be allowed to do that it's not up to him or does he run the show seems very much like it.
Says he who has already contracted COVID 🦠 🥔
Dutton is a murderous criminal tho.
Dutton is Defence Minister NOT Health Minister❗️🐀
You just can’t make this shit up!
Idiot
It’s time for the states to declare an end-date to this farce and force this incompetent Federal Government to accept its responsibility for quarantine and border control.
Guards suspected of sleeping on the job Private security guards employed to enforce NSW’s strict hotel quarantines have been sleeping on the job. 27/04/2021 Just in case if Melbourne gets these story like last year.....
This has what to do with Defence?
What a crock of sh*t. Said because the Commonwealth doesn't want to help fund a State to create a properly designed and functioning quarantine facility.
He's not working well
Agreed
Ummm five days ago, Dutton and the LiberalAus didn’t seem to think hotel quarantine was going so well? Is anyone paying attention? auspol
Just like Christmas Island, hey, Mr Dutton, and the refugee policy in general?
Perhaps you should speak to the Chief Whip re his comments on ABC radio 29 April 21.
Wish we could dismiss him out of politics forever.
Hotel quarantine was an immediate, and temporary response. Such facilities are not fit for purpose and one should question whether continued promotion of same by the LNP is obfuscation and/or lobbying on behalf of hotel operators, for whom it provides a truckload of cash auspol
Seriously . Where hole have you had your head buried in over the past 14 months
Excellent. Why build a white elephant?
It's working fine now. Will this government ever do anything?
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) remains critical of the ongoing use of hotels for quarantine due to the airborne transmission of COVID-19.
It’s probably working well because he’s not directly responsible for managing it.
Works well until they can point the finger after an outbreak occurs because it’s not 100% fit for purpose. Duttons an embracement.
Dutton...pfffft!
LNP living off the fat of the land, the laziest political party EVER
Amazing how these fed gov ministers get off so lightly with arrogantly and unashamedly refusing to contribute to quarantine provision when it is constitutionally their responsibility. Wonder when they'll next vote in a pay rise for themselves.
PeterDutton_MP is the Defence Minister, I think we’d all prefer to hear from someone that actually has medical experience, not just locking people up experience
I dismiss Dutton every time I hear his name.
Spud talking out of his portfolio again..
Lol - now he thinks it’s good - convenient 🙄
oh, potato man no nothing.
Working 99% of the time is irrelevant if there is one leak that results in a statewide lockdown. It has to be 100% fool proof.
I dismiss Duttons gross potato face 🥔
So PeterDutton is expert in everything, defence, war, national security, covid , etc. But opinions are no facts.
Peter: 'Let the Ruby Princess passengers go!' Narrator: 29 deaths and 900 infections later ...
PeterDutton_MP probably has not read the document. Because it is Victorian, he feels the need to scoff at it. No constructive nor forward thinking.
So when the international borders are finally opened and those coming in from overseas for a lovely relaxing Aussie holiday are looking for hotel accommodation, where are you going to put them? Vaccination, doesn’t mean you can’t still catch it.
They know it has problems and they don't care. The federal government want a local breakout of covid.
What a deep thinker you are or not.
Cripes Dan will be happy for that admission...
so one minute it is a disaster in Victoria and now when asked to step up, it is working well. Libs take us for fools!
Ya joken aren't cha baldy.
Yes hotel quarantine works well until it doesn't, and the states are left to deal with the fallout.
Typical laziness of a conservative politician? 'It's good enough as it is. We don't need to make it better by spending money on better facilities/systems.' We need better people in charge with Science Ethics Engineering etc & run for election AND more educated voters. Auspol
Isn't Voldutton the Minister for Defence? Shouldn't be be beating drums or something?
He should wear a hat when he is outside.
I think as soon as we accept that what they would really like is their original idea of 'herd immunity', and with it losing a large percentage of the old and infirm, the better off and more informed we will all be.
Funny. It's not what they were saying this time last year..
It is working well for the Federal government to politicise the pandemic, offload responsibility to the states and endanger our health by pushing to keep things open and unleash deadly new variants.
It is not working and will only become worse as this virus evolves. The world will have more pandemics and probably worse pandemics, we need these cabin quarantine centres for this and future pandemics. Why aren’t the LNP government listening to world leading epidemiologists?
Contact tracing is a massive issue. Who is responsible for this.
PeterDutton_MP is the Defense/War Minister, he must concentrate on his own portfolio and leave the LiberalAus perversion of the Constitution to the appropriate member.
Actaully I think his head is up his...
How’s the head on it
Hmmm......is he after the top job now? Thought you had a war to organize.
Why are you running an arguably unfounded opinion from the Minister of Defence? This is not part of his portfolio. Why is he offering public comment? And is he a scientist? Why does his personal opinion count more than the professional feedback of the AMA?
what's it got to do with him?
That reminds me - I need to sharpen my tools.
Thought he was defence monistor?
How many outbreaks have we had from Howard Springs? Dutton is jealous of anyone who shows leadership. All he can supply is criticism and schemes to support political objectives..auspol
Of course PeterDutton_MP would claim Victoria's hotel quarantine system is working well after repeatedly discrediting it 🙄
It's working very well for the federal government considering they've had fuck all to do with it
They just don’t want to spend the money to keep people safe and employed.
Rubbish
Dumb as a dodo - apologies to dodos... The simple truth is if we had purpose built quarantine centers then we may have been able to help those trapped overseas Not to mention probably avoided most of the lockdowns
'Hotels are working very well' said Mr Dutton
As the minister responsible for those 'bespoke cruise ship arrangements' that allowed the Ruby Princess to dock and cause our first wave - do we really trust anything the wannabe PM says about quarantine?
Just a reminder that Victoria's 2020 lockdown which occurred out of a Quarantine breach, is now consider to work well.
This facility is not viable and disaster to Victoria It is located in the heart of Residential areas creating panic,fear and distress among people. Further why spending $700 million. Labour always focus and spends on Roads, buildings and Trains.They need to consult people before
He's like Dracula, sucking the joy out of life...
Dutton has no right to make any comments. The virus first penetrated Australia under his watch. Victorian governement.... go it alone and build the facility anyway. Think most of us in Victoria do not want HQ anymore.
That's because it is not costing the feds a dollar!
Parody tweet?
Not his job
Not his portfolio. He should stay in his lane.🤬
The PM says over 500,000 Australians have returned home since Covid and that quarantine has been 99.9% effective. This implies that in 0.1% of 500,000 i.e. 500 cases it has not been effective. How is that a system that is 'working very well'?
Lord Voldemort has spoken.
SHUT UP Dutton just SHUT UP
Who cares...it has nothing to do with Department of Defence!!
This man has at best, smoke for cerebral matter
So the Minister of Defence is responsible for quarantine?
Isn't his portfolio, Defence?
Dutton seems to be taking over a number of portfolios - now he’s doing Health as well as Home Affairs and Defence...are we paying him to run three departments? If Morrison isn’t careful, Dutton will be taking on the PM role while Morrison goes off to discover who he really is...
...when 8000 abandonedAussies are stuck in India because ScottMorrisonMP twiddled his thumbs until there was a second wave and then slammed the door shut .. It's not working well
fool...
Dutton is an absolute prick of a thing.
Arsehole.
Working “very well” That’s not what the experts say.
Not surprised. The Victorian Labor State government was testing the Federal LNP governments intention regarding hotel quarantine in dense population of city areas. Now we know. It’s on the public record. That 0.01% hotel leak has locked down cities and lost $billions + jobs.
There are issues on all sides of politics with HQ: -The VIC Govt should have discussed it's proposal for purpose built Q facilities with the CMW before going public -The CMW needs to acknowledge that Q is their responsibility (Biosecurity Act) -State & T'y HQ concerns are legit
Has Dutton actually been near a quarantine hotel? How does he know
But Dutton is an idiot
Hotel quarantine must be a good earner obviously duttons mates own them! Question, how much are these hotels charging us tax payers
I’m sorry I just can’t work this guy out. Why does he need to be such a contrary man constantly ? EnoughIsEnough
If HQ system is so brilliant, why have all the repatriation of Australian’ s overseas not been completed? WHY? Highly infectious Airborne COVID19 doesn’t belong in shared +ve pressure accommodation hives. Just for once LNP needs to be visionary. LNPNegativePressure irony!
Where is your evidence?
Dude who brought covid into Australia through quarantine says what?
Who listens to that monster?
Dutton is fully qualified to wear the underpant outside the trouser This will scare China in the early war phase An hour later, they will crack up laughing It is then we gain the upperhand He might scare us, but he's no dill
Not Duttons portfolio Not even his state Is his ministerial colleague unable to speak? Or perhaps he’s being “ambitious” for Morrison
Potato head who let in the ruby princess says what?
That's spudspeak for I'm profiting from it.
Given the nature of risk (probability/severity), one would explore possibility of repurposing available infrastructure (hotels/motels/bnbs etc) over building anything new; which seems to be an approach to look after a particular class (Developers). Justice delayed=justice denied.
Of course he is, an MP in the government is not going to go against their own policy/procedure. That seems pretty obvious to me.
Thank you! Finally a federal minister giving Victoria praise for HQ! And a Queenslander to boot. Could it get any better than this? *sarcasm*
Up is down, black is white and alice is down the rabbit hole.....Dutton gone dutton auspol
Hes just a Fool or is that TOOL quarantine is not his portfolio ...... get on with the defence of our country you niased Fool.
LNPfail ScottyDoesNothing and just for the heck of it (lest We Forget) ChristianPorterallegedrapist
Everything he says, sounds creepy; everything ScoMo says, makes me feel like I’m in trouble. I just get bad vibes from the LNP. Untrustworthy lot.
You can report on Dutton without showing us his head you know.
I thought he was defence minister not the fence minister
PeterDutton_MP if the Hotel Quarantine system is working so well why did not you as the Boarder Protection Minister at the time, take it over when the Gov stopped job keeper/seeker stopped? You will be the most 💩est Defence Minister every. You're in good company the last 2 DM
There is clearly a need for purpose built quarantine facilities. Apart from issues with hotel quarantine Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic we have to deal with. As with climate change Dutton prefers to ignore science and avoid responsibility.
What a muppet this guy is. Put your hand up if you voted for him.
Each lockdown costs billions, but this bunch of reprobates would rather not spend ten cents!
PeterDutton_MP should stick to defence and silencing those beating war drums.
'working well to ensure no blame for failures falls on the Federal Government'
If it wasn't for them damn African gangs
Come on potato. Pick up your game. We need international arrivals beyond just returning nationals. This proposal looks like progress.
Too cute, if it was Gladbags in NSW, he’d be saying it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Strikes me as petty, grasping, and no doubt feeling a bit of heat…
Leaving hotel quarantine to the states means the federal government can take all the glory of managing Covid-19 without taking any of the responsibility and can also the. blame the states if anything goes wrong auspol
Poor Pete is panicking because his beloved asylum seeker prisons might get emptied and used for quarantine
Spud
After the Morrison Govt's 660+ deaths in Aged Care facilities, its still risk averse to be responsible for another human tragedy.
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