Hiring security guards 'an attempt at social inclusion'

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A senior Department of Jobs official has been removed from their role as evidence mounts that the decision to use private security guards at quarantine hotels was partly driven by a well-meaning attempt to provide jobs under 'social inclusion' policies.

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A senior Department of Jobs official has been shifted from their role as evidence mounts that the decision to use private security guards at Melbourne’s quarantine hotels was partly driven by a well-meaning attempt to provide jobs under "social inclusion" policies.

Departmental sources insisted on Saturday that the official’s secondment to another senior job creation role was not a reflection on their performance in contracting private security firms for hotel quarantine.The revelations will increase pressure on the Andrews government over whether it put too much emphasis on finding jobs for marginalised Victorians without ensuring that those guarding hotel guests were trained in infection control and supervised by authorised officers.

The task of contracting the security firms was given to the department’s executive director of employment, whomhave chosen not to name. The official has since been replaced by two acting directors on the latest version of the department's organisation chart. The officer has retained their senior role at the department.

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Absolute Rubbish! This government has good intentions for their rich patrons and themselves only.

The mob they employed were the business recommended by scomo. The federal govt use them for all their security work.

The contracted company is at fault for many failures. Why isn't the press hammering the company? Why isn't a fair work investigation mentioned? All we hear is about Dan. Government checks should have been in place but everyone ignores the actual problem

If Andrews and Pakula can claim credit for engaging private security firms as part of a social procurement arrangement then they need to be accountable for the deaths and economic carnage this decision has caused and not blame an official who was trying to deliver on govt policy

Good gawd has seriously slipped from where it once was, great journalism with intelligence. Now it’s another LNP mouthpiece... what a shame!

Clever red herring. Real issue is the reason Labour refused Fed help in establishing the hotelquarantine It was politically motivated! (during state of emergency) DanielAndrewsMP quoted x times in parliament as to never take directives from the Feds!!

GarthGodsman The plot thickens. Is this the beginning of a political cover up to save some political butt. Nothing would surprise.

Is that what being woke is?

DanielCherny Corruption corruption. Typical Labor. Let’s give the contract to a company that wasn’t even on the govt preferred list of security co’s but give it to one who hires marginalised staff. Do I read into this those that can’t speak English, have zero training and unemployable.

No matter how much training these security guard or ADF recieved, it wasn't going to prevent it getting out. The ppl in hotels were trying eveything to breach it. The virus is so contagious, look at how many healthcare works have it and they are trained in infection control

How’d the ‘well meaning’ policy work?

Another example in a long line (see BLM protests), where virtue signalling trumps public safety.

Social inclusion is very important but definitely not a priority in the battle with this virus!!

Scomo provided a list of security companies to all premiers to use for the hotel quarantine hotels!!!

CPontificates That sounds right. If we can't live in equality, at least we'll die in it.

Please look into this

This is an egregious act of gross mis management. I sincerely hope DanielAndrewsMP and his incompetent Ministers are forced to defend their decisions in a court of law. Their decisions have cost lives, businesses and jobs!

'Bloody do gooders' as my father would say. Never think things through as they are so wound up in saving people.

No one questioned such a stupidity? Such a decision must have had sign off. The head of the department & the responsible minister have to go. A blunder costing well in excess of $12B and many lives.

Political correctness will destroy our society

This is redefining 'get woke, go broke'

Does that mean Government by political correctness? 🤔

I hope the same companies/ policies are not responsible for patient transport! Seemed to be a lack of social distancing among drivers at morning tea last weekend

Social inclusion is important. It just can’t be the deciding factor when public safety is at risk. ALL companies must have satisfactory training standards for critical work. DanielAndrewsMP has created a culture in the public service of symbolism first and now he has to go.

Dig deeper The Age; you may be surprised what you find in this Cretin's 'Aladdin's Cave' Have a good look at the chief exec at the DEDJTR whose name is BOLT. You may be surprised what you find there. DEDJTR is full of Danophiles that have wrecked the public service

Yeah, that's bad news.

We should help Aboriginal firms. It just can’t be the deciding factor when public safety is at risk. ALL companies must have satisfactory training standards for critical work. DanielAndrewsMP has created a culture in the public service of symbolism first and now he has to go.

Did Denial Andrews “social inclusion” giving hotel iso security jobs to those marginalised also include paying them only $10ph? Could it be said that Andrews govt oversaw the rip-off of these poor marginalised people by underpaying them? 🤔 Royal Commission now! auspol victoria

How does the left come up with this total bullshit !

Something the liberals would never do of course they’d rather sell it to off shore and then argue why Government must support these businesses

one of the many problems with the left is they NEVER admit error even if blind Freddy knows they're wrong....they're incapable of accepting fault and telling the truth and tie themselves up in knots denying what is so obviously true......what a wicked web we weave when we deceive

Back in February and March it was said a number of times that the single biggest risk was returned travellers. That is why we started hotel quarantine. Mismanagement, for whatever reason, of the quarantine by the state government is unforgivable.

Thanks to Martin Pakula (Minister for Department of Jobs, Precincts and the Regions) – he hired 1300 jobs for the Work for Victoria Scheme, he was happy to take credit for that. These jobs were for the botched hotel quarantine, he needs to go.

A Dan made disaster IblameDan

Don't buy, don't read it - anymore.

Doesn't the buck stop with Dan? I'm sure I heard him say that...

Can’t make this shut up

I've just done a unit on 'Diversity in the Workplace'. Now I find out that shit can kill !?

Seriously I don’t even care about the stupid hotel at the moment. Why is it always blame the politician, whatever party they are. The security company was obviously completely incompetent. How about for one media just shut up and let the politicians get on with it

DanielAndrewsMP don't move the person/people around if they've made terrible decisions, fire them! Start answering questions, be transparent & be honest. Again the 'social inclusion' policy should not have been used when playing with people lives, jobs, economy, work, families.

“Well meaning attempt to provide jobs”... really ... don’t these department heads use a bit of common sense... like putting a person with first aid qualifications in charge of ICU!!!!

What a mess. Disgraceful, bad decision making, bad management & the wrong people in the wrong jobs. When there is a pandemic & people lives are at stake, it's not a time to use the 'Social conscience' corporate tool. DanielAndrewsMP you need to fire people.

Yeah but you know 'diversity'

Privatisation IS BAD okay!!

Wow, anyone want worms for breakfast, coz someone just opened a whole can of them!

Your so desperate to implicate Andrews ignoring the fact that quarantine is a Federal responsibility.... nice try .

Just so I’m clear... ensuring everyone isn’t offended by who you hire to protect people is more important than actually protecting people, got it. Pretty sure there’s more than enough diversity in the ADF, seemed good enough for every other state.

They chose from the firm’s tendered by the Morrison Government. Rumor has it .

As if. Nice smokescreen though 🙄

This sounds like spin to create a fake excuse that sounds almost legit, while the real reason is far more insidious. Something doesn’t smell right here. vicpol covidvic springst

FakeNews

Yaaaaaaaaaay

Thanks for trying Age but given the rumourmongering and fake news that is rife at the moment it’s probably better to take a deep breath and wait for the results of the inquiry and let Dan do his job.

There was no offer of AFP, ADF or any other alphabet agency to aid the Vic govt. in doing a job that is supposed to be done by the Feds under Border Farce rules, run by mr potatohead. They are responsible for quarantine not state govts. Get your info right before hitting send!

When good sound judgement gets overridden for poorly managed social inclusion programs merely to demonstrate feel good metrics where an outcome was always placing other at risk that gives you the best insight into where we are. Bugger doing it right. Make sure it done to the left

Whose in charge? The brunt stops with the creep in charge, Danial (DH) Andrews!

Says who. Am afraid until actual proof is shown, will take this as another story to attack the Premier. Evidence is something that you peeps don’t believe in.

MWhalan Killing us with kindness...that’s a novel Govt department approach .

THANK YOU DAN!!!!!!!! DanielAndrewsMP 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

One would suggest not to use a global pandemic as a ‘job creation exercise’ but perhaps use the most highly trained staff or people for the job not the unqualified such as flight crews for contact tracing

Just another monumental fuckup from captain fuckup

DictatorDan CedarAndrews DeadlyDan DanMadeDisaster resignDanAndrews resignDanielAndrews

The removed executive would've also had to complete a Conflict of Interest form. Did they list their previous dealings with Unified Security? They should be prosecuted if they didn't. springst

jobs for Victorians.... I get that

Private security should never be used for any Govt jobs. They have no ‘loyalty or invested culture to the Govt. They haven’t done the training and don’t follow orders. It would be like using private citizens for the army. Unthinkable..

Print the supposed leaked email in full then. Truth matters. auspol

Well meaning ? Ppfffftttt . Dumb !!

Everyone was blaming Apu for screwing the infected guest but it was Jimmy Blacksmith.

Budget amounts set aside for this meant you get what you pay for. Qualified & trained individuals cost too much.

Another unsubstantiated story. What has happened to the age?

DanielCherny So social inclusion has put me in lockdown again. Right Ok, people won’t be forgetting this for a long time.

Where’s the evidence of the leaked email? Where’s the name of the person ‘moved on? Another flimsy bit of imagination from Costellos troops.

I can see how this decision came about, but was it seriously weighed up about the most appropriate workforce for the task, given the risk? Surely thus would have outweighed the drive for a few more jobs.

AustralianLabor VictorianLabor congrats on ruining so many lives

ScottMorrisonMP SkyNewsAust socialism at it’s best

VictorianCHO ABC socialism!!

'Political Correctness' going mad! politicalcorrectness

I knew one day diversity quotas would be the death of us , didn’t think it would be so soon .

MorpheusBeing This is the end result of 1. Labor nepotism/union jobs for the boys 2. State government arrogance thinking they don’t need AFP/Army/Police 3. Ideology triumphing over common sense 4. A swathe of departmental fuckheads thinking they can manage this and not getting national experts

DanielAndrewsMP JennyMikakos 3AWNeilMitchell VicHealth RitaPanahi theheraldsun socialism at it’s finest

How many Victorian public servants on jobkeeper? None Yet the government demands we destroy the economy

Excellent - though utterly infuriating - piece by Richard Baker and noeltowell. Incompetence within the public service & government ranks has so far cost scores of innocent Victorians their lives. The truth of the matter simply has to be exposed. COVID19Vic COVID19Victoria

It is pretty disgusting this article basically says that supporting marginalised people in securing work is to blame. Of course only marginalised members of our communities would have done these things, right? With reporting like this the marginalisation continues oppression

Sounds more like once again a way too cosy relationships between a department providing contracts and a labor hire firm that is both oddly very expensive and pays its workers very little.

DanielAndrewsMP VicGovAu socialism at it’s finest

Social inclusion of the senior DJPR and DHHS officials and their families into elite clubs? Maybe free travel junkets, free house Reno's?

DanielCherny I think that sportsbetcomau had that as one of the reasons for this disastrous outcome at $1.03

I just want one newspaper to use ‘Clusterfuck’ as the headline when writing on this quarantine clusterfuckery. Because that is what it is - from the start to finish. Heads will roll at the end but for now let’s just get on with fixing this mess.

So, what favours, gifts or money were exchanged to enable Unified to get the contract?

There's the heart of the problem social inclusion policies absolute crap pandering to minorities again loonyleft

The executive director responsible for this, moved elsewhere within the department, is still receiving $192-$250k salary. springst

I’m sure some time in 2022 when the inquiry figures out how to use zoom we will get answers 🙄🙄

Who is the chairman of ch9 again 🤔

This Government has given ideological thought bubbles more weight than those based on accountable processes, providing 450 unqualified people with employment, has subsequently caused hundreds of thousands of people to become unemployed.

Absolutely thought this was the case. 👍

I'm already looking forward to the press conference

I’m sure, the inquiry will be revealing - as was the Ruby Princess. The outcome will be interesting. Meanwhile, right now, lets not be distracted and stay focussed on the real enemy that doesn’t care what political opinion you have.

It’s easy tocriticise if you aren’t making the decisions.

MorpheusBeing

This gets worse each day

It seems they were selected for the most primitive of reasons - because of their race. That's appalling, if true. Racism is never right - even so-called 'affirmative racism' under the guise of being 'progressive'. It's actually highly regressive. DanielAndrewsMP ought to resign!

Zzzzzz . No one gives a f*ck. Get some new material Costello.

Labor’s social stupidity has stuffed Victoria for a long long time to come

Go woke kill folks

Does everyone believe everything they read? Perhaps read between the lines. Look into some of the sources. Lots of ‘they’, ‘some’ and historical inaccuracies in this journalism. Shameful.

This ain't gonna go well

Let me guess, Indians employing Indians who employed Indians. All to assimilate and be part of the community?

Sorry but I can’t understand how ppl this stupid end up in these jobs, and how many ppl have to approve this and it still got through? Be ‘well-meaning’ with jobs that don’t involve a highly contagious virus and need infection control protocols! FFS 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Its group think within government, there is no diversity.

Taken him several weeks to come up with this bullshit about “social inclusion” as an excuse for their massive botch up of the hotel quarantine. In turn this decision to include a few has caused a total social exclusion for ALL of us

Jobs for the boys....during a pandemic...er right

Was only a matter of time. The do gooders try to run the show. Now the actual commonsense doers are paying the price.

Good job VictorianLabor. Putting Affirmative Action before community health. Comparable to putting China before national security. ResignDanielAndrews dansfault springst vicpol

Seems the critical error was assigning quarantine management to Dept. of Jobs, who were by their own admission not experts. At a minimum there should’ve been oversight from police.

Hardly the time for a change in employment hiring policy when the stakes were so high. Check this out longlostlucy

Administrative failures are costing Victorians dearly.The Government needs to take full responsibility for this and allow the electorate to judge them.I am also outraged by the salary increases they have given themselves and public servants.We are being economically crippled.

Full Public Service review is required into the roles and administrative failures of DJPR and DHHS. Outsourcing of call centres a massive failure leading to inability to get accurate information and avoids scrutiny.

Hey let’s make it socially inclusive, but let his union mates work them into the ground and pay them a pittance. All with no checks and balances. Corrupt to the core.

Every comment has criticized the choice of security. This is not the main problem. The real issue is the oversight- there wasn’t any.

Now we have social exclusion policies caused by social inclusion policies.

😂😂... It just keeps getting better..

No wonder Andrews did not want ScoMo's help with Defence force personal 6 weeks earlier........concerned the disaster would be uncovered and the problem would not be that serious. Who knows how many hundreds will die now........Will make Beirut bomb look minor.

Check his assets and all his closest allies.. this was a virus not a concert... idiots were hired with no clue

rtralphy oh dear, and we wonder in the Twitter world how it all went wrong....

Rubbish. This is just finding a fall guy and playing him/her under a 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌

I don't know what to believe but I wouldn't give a lefty the keys to my car let alone the keys to a city.

These are large security companies - they have management that should have sourced people who knew what to do or turn the job down.

Policy decisions do have implications. By valuing ideology over competency, you end up where we are today. The precious, glass jawed, group thought, unchallengeable dogma of the left, prohibiting any critical analysis is predictable, tiresome, juvenile & this time deadly. Grow up

Diversity is our strength though? How is this possible!

'Well meaning' How long did it take for the DanielAndrewsMP & the Vic Gov to come up with this excuse? Long meetings into the night I'm sure. Trying their best to look good but no doubt kick backs was the real truth.

So they needed to spend millions on an enquiry to ‘remove’ (scapegoat) some bureaucrat? This is why people don’t trust or like politicians.

Were the officials related to Jenny Mikakos? Nepotism is not beyond her.

It's was done because the Andrews government are completely incompetent in every way, shape and form.

First DHHS got restructured, now officials in DJPR being moved around. How can Andrews say they’re waiting for the inquiry? Surely this is exactly “grading their own paper”? Andrews is treading a very fine line between blocking questions and misleading the public.

Redpilled9 Why did planes come in from China last night and all the cameras were shut down on the freeways around the airport!!

Bullshit. Corrupt. Corrupt. Why not use professionals when you can use “diverse” workers from niche companies that charge you twice as much and don’t get the job done. Shameful.

CHEAPER 457's

We are all in this all over the place

Ironic. Pushing for inclusion, has left us all isolated.

After finishing their shifts, those ‘socially included’ student visa security guards went home to multiple families living communally under one roof as their wives left for their shifts as agency care workers in nursing homes🙄

Now we’ve switched to flight attendants policing hotels. Tea? Coffee? I hope the mile high club is closed...

When you’re blinded by your own ‘ideology’ instead of good governance even during a pandemic ... the Achilles heel of the left !!! DanielAndrewsMP ScottMorrisonMP auspol

Jesus this is gonna kick off

Wow, now The Age has gone full racist!

This is getting very old!

Too little to late

Haha! It’s HR’s fault... l’ve always hired the best person for the Job, and not just gifted someone a Job to appease HR’s lame policies...

I guess this is what happens when an institution values group identity over competency.

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You are kidding me Surely not! 'Social Inclusion' Too supervise returned travellers with high virus risks!

It’s time to unsubscribe to the age it’s controlled by Peter Costello goodbye auspol springst

If the Vic Premier hadn’t caved to his Union bosses’ instructions to reject the offer of the AFP for hotel security, there is every chance Australia would have zero COVID 19 cases now. Let that sink in. 🤬 Imagine the difference 🙄 6 weeks ago, Australia had 55 cases nationwide.

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