'I haven't seen it': Premier responds to video of hotel quarantine bureaucrats

a number of government workers – none of whom are qualified in health or infection control matters – praise one another about their performance.Another worker says the phrase "that escalated quickly" had "taken on an entirely different meaning" during the set-up of the program aimed at safely quarantining returning overseas travellers upon arrival in Melbourne for two weeks.

"The one thing that is common to all of them is that they are all working as hard as they possibly can." The Premier replied: "People across the board are performing roles and functions that are a long way away from what they might be traditionally expected to.""You're asking me questions and, with all due respect, you don’t get to answer those questions by running another editorial," the Premier said.

"We want him to tell us who was responsible for the decision to put untrained bureaucrats and unprofessional private security guards in charge of hotel quarantine, instead of using the police or the ADF like every other state did."

Oh ... Fairfax has truly gone... typical LNP muckraking, video has nothing to do with anything, other than to run it along side other negative andrews government coverage, creating an insinuation... 'The Age' i once knew was better than that, they would INVESTIGATE

Quarantine at hotels was Andrews idea, Morrison wanted to let returning travellers quarantine at home. Andrews used companies listed on Morrison Govt preferred supplier list. How about an article on the projected carnage if liberals were in charge.

Whatever they do, they are setting some bench marks for tackling the pandemic. It seems working. Why pick on the team to gain political points ?

Run away! Run away!

How do we trust this govt when Dan Andrews lies through his teeth and has to be caught out by letters sent by federal offering their services. This man is a compulsive liar that actually believes he is telling the truth, he has a real problem!

Mr Andrews. Lying to us about not being offered Defence Force assistance in the quarantine effort? While you are at it; please release the details of the State loan from China!

If it wasn’t for this idea the whole country would be fucked simple as that . The other states have to thank Dan Andrews for the idea . Simple as that ..

Was that before or after their pay rise?

With all of the finger pointing - we shouldn't forget that it was some of the quarantined that broke the rules. Adults who know the difference between right & wrong felt it was their right to endanger others. They were treated with the respect some of them didn't deserve.

Time for Andrews to resign. No one acknowledged the seriousness of hotel quarantining and in the end treated it like a 'visiting trade mission'. WTF.

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This is a very familiar defence. “I didn’t do it.” “Nobody saw me, you can’t prove anything.” Bart Simpson isn’t the only cartoon character to get air time it seems. The sad thing is Andrews isn’t funny just incredibly dangerous.

OMFG what part of this do they not get. He isn't the bad guy here.

Question. Does the quarantine of healthy people and mandatory wearing of masks with healthy people contravene the Bio Security Act 2015

Another Current Affair story

The CCP Virus can be finished by hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azithromycin . Please put those drugs Over The Counter to save more lives. No one will be safe if WHO,Politicians,medias still keep lying.

Who cares. If you looked at the data, you would realise that there were 4737 deaths in June 2019, and that the monthly average for 2019 was 3448.75 - so approx 1300 more than average for the year. Must have been the flu hey! Lest we forget June 2019

yep this was within 24 hrs of setting it up ...but don't expect that to explained...go for the gotcha headline

And Morrison’s refusal to allow Federal govt officers to appear before the Ruby Princess Royal Commission, despite subpoenas being issued? Hello?

And scrutiny over the Ruby Princess ‘error’?

Brilliant DanielAndrewsMP! Set up a convoluted governance regime for hotel quarantine where no one knows who’s doing what then use that as your defence. That ladies and gentlemen, is how you avoid accountability!

Self praise is worth about the same credibility that the Aged Care facility. Ticked all its own Box's to score perfect. Result just before Pandemic arrived & walked in front DOOR As Morrison had, Mate Mick investigate Mate Angus

They were told in April that there were problems in HQ & yet outbreaks from HQ still happened, that's negligence Istandagainstdan resignDanAndrews idontstandwithdan ResignDanielAndrews sackdanielandrews jaildanielandrews and throw away the key!!

And so they should praise themselves Sure, parts of it went wrong but this is an unprecedented global pandemic, they setup a program in under 24 hours Should NSW not praise their hotel quarantine because a few people have escaped? Regardless, the overall program is impressive

I would have been pretty happy with myself setting up an entire system like that in 24hrs too Hindsight suggest that rush to achieve resulted in a poor quality outcome unfortunately Mistakes were made, that's obvious to me but I find it hard to blame people in the circumstances

Clowns and circus’s come to mind!

ElaineM11584892 ✅They will concentrate on hotel quarantine coz they can’t handle the truth about aged care deaths! 😡

Really fascinating that no other media outlet has picked up this story given they keep comparing the Victorian hotel quarantine program with the ‘perfect’ ADF-facilitated NSW system.

Garbage journalism.

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