The lawyer leading the inquiry into Victoria's hotel quarantine has foreshadowed strong conclusions likely to embarrass the state government.
"The board may well find that these risks were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen had there been an appropriate level of health focus in the program from the top down to the bottom." Ms Ellyard said: "The evidence seems to be that the Victorian authorities understood that there was the potential access to ADF help, but they considered that they had enough resources."
State controllers Andrea Spiteri and Jason Helps, in charge of the overall pandemic response, told the inquiry that Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton had absolute control.
I don’t understand what is the point of this article. Bad journalism from the Age again
Absolutely disgraceful CHO and Dictator Dan are allowed to carry on as if nothing happened! They should be thrown in prison !!
More Liberal inspired reporting Rubbish. I thought the Age had a new Editor in Charge ..... oh well ............... more Cliick bait stuff from the Age.
How can the people who caused the hotel quarantine debacle still be running our pandemic response? The Premier, Health Minister and their bureaucrats must step aside. When will someone be held accountable. A complete miscarriage of justice.
Pay peanut you get monkey. The blame should be on the leaders who supposed to lead, supervise, monitor with strict measures to ensure the outbreak is able to control/contain, just like how borders security control food safety, dogs are sniffing, every bag was checked. Epic fail!
If they’d gone with ADF the Lib’s would have said Dan had abandoned Victorian workers, if they done a complete lockdown on return travellers they would have cried human rights - O’Brien and the LNP would not have done any better
Shirley56733062 LaborFail springst
Forever pushing LNP lies.
ANTICOM_Aus Also the banning of COVID-19 treatments in March was a bad thing too. 🤨
What you get when woke folk call the shots. Socialism before competency = second wave
If you can't quarantine properly, then we'll need a hard border closure.
Incompetent Dan Andrews Governement.
Interesting article from the Age Yes humans doing the wrong thing , just like in Dandenong at the moment . One persons actions with this virus can kill many . That’s why we don’t want these protests
There are obvious failings here. DHHS/Police - no clear idea of who was in charge. They had no pandemic quarantine plan - but they never expected to do this as it’s a federal responsibility. How do you plan for something you’d never thought you would do
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The hundreds of people did not die as a result from the travellers quarantined. The greatest majority occurred in Aged Care, another misleading media outlet
See, can’t blame muslims all the time
Thanks diversity 🙏🏾👍🏾
Correct, but use Daniel Andrews' ugly mug in your pic, the CHO was effectively muzzled.
Renee_Charlize That is NOT where the SOURCE is NOW!! Get up with TODAY!! PNH'S and AREAS of CLUSTER STILL going on!! 👎😷🤪😡
Yes, if the private( federally funded) had been given money to do their job( not millions given to owners) Proper staffing and PPE may have stopped hundreds dying in nursing homes in Vic!
As a non Victorian, I feel sympathy for him. He is dealing with a fractured society, that refuses to take it seriously, or has , as I suspect, a laissez faire attitude!!
It’s time to start a massive class action against the three security companies who were paid to do hotel quarantine
Blood on your hands Andrews, Mikakos and Sutton.
This is beyond words shameful and disgusting. Thanks to this not only jave hundreds of lives been lost, thousands of livelyhoods have been ruined.
This was such a gross oversight by VicGovAu, VictorianCHO, DanielAndrewsMP and JennyMikakos. Yet none of them have taken responsibility for the fact that grossly negligent under trained secutiry guards where put in charge of maintaining Victoria's bio safety and boarders.
Well when you have muslims that have a complete disregard for the rules like Ramadan, El Habibi college and now the Dandenong cluster (Afghans) who cares about quarantine...
Still past HISTORY!! The REAL problems TODAY are the likes of CLUSTERS defying the COVID LAWS out there!! STILL areas defying TESTING etc.!!👎🤪😡🤪👎😡
I wonder how many it saved too?
Yep and this shit DanielAndrewsMP government is to blame. Lives, businesses and jobs have been lost because of Andrews incompetence.
Clearly the enquiry has a crystal ball (now) that the Government did not (then). auspol IStandWithDan
Compared to what? ScottMorrisonMP's plan for them to self quarantine at home. Mmmm, things could have been a lot lot worse.
Vic govt ministers, heads of dept and the premier, DictatorDan, are each collectively responsible for Australia's largest ever public policy failure. The enquiry should be sufficient to demand action against those most unambiguously responsible. If not, a Royal Commission.
Thankyou the AGE, the Standwithdan crowd are ignoring the facts, blaming this on Victorians breaking Lock down rules. That is not the case! The second wave was caused by the Hotel quarantine failure due to Dictator Dan refusing help or advice from the federal Gov help and VIC CHO
I am afraid this man got out of his depth. Playing politics not ,medicine. Shame.
The virus is not killing them, old age, neglect, locked down homes and all manner of other normal things with old pple is killing them. No one in the broader community has died.
Exactly how many security guards? Because that’s the number we need to be way under before we open up.
All because of the utterley incompetent baffoons of the Victorian Government lead by the deranged narcissistic Daniel Andrews. Pity his 'wildly infectious' virus wasn't important to him in March. 'I DON'T BELIEVE ADF WERE ON OFFER' DANLIEDPEOPLEDIED teflonDan
So it wasn’t a bonking guard sharing a cigarette lighter after all. The most incompetent labor government in Australian history has caused this shit show, destroying families, businesses and mental health of 6 million residents.
Close the Fin borders .. they were told to return long time ago..now while of Aus suffers
A cornucopia of lies, half-truths and diversions. Every Victorian ought remember until election day at the end of November 2022 that 'no one knows' who made the fateful decision. springst auspol VicGovDHHS australian theheraldsun LiberalVictoria
The more you read about it the more you realise how avoidable this disaster was.
Dictator Dan, Sly Sutton and the rest of the govt and bureaucrats will deflect, and avoid any responsibilities. A disgraceful lot. Gold medal for being the worst state govt in Oz.
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