International arrivals given right to appeal hotel quarantine detention
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International arrivals going into Victoria’s rebooted hotel quarantine program can apply for their detention to be reviewed by a panel of lawyers within 24 hours.
The Age has confirmed the government has been on a recruiting blitz to source lawyers with more than 10 years of experience to act as detention review officers.
Returning travellers set to be detained in the Intercontinental Hotel began arriving last Thursday.
Credit:Jason South
The new review process has been brought in following recommendations from the Coate inquiry, which found repeated failures in the first version of hotel quarantine resulted in coronavirus spreading into the community, sparking Victoria’s deadly second wave last year.