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 Private security guards were the wrong choice to guard Victoria s returned travellers in the hotel quarantine scheme and no person or agency took responsibility for the decision to use them, an inquiry has found. Retired judge Jennifer Coate said in her final report into the $195 million program that no one took ownership for the decision to use private guards and all vigorously disputed the possibility they could have played a part in the decision . Ms Coate said police would have been a better cohort than private guards. Consideration was not given to the appropriateness or implications of using a largely casualised workforce in an environment where staff had a high likelihood of being exposed to the highly infectious COVID-19, Ms Coate said in her report on Monday.
Ex-health minister Jenny Mikakos slams failed Victorian coronavirus hotel quarantine inquiry, accuses Daniel Andrews of deflection
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Jenny Mikakos quit Parliament in September in the wake of the inquiry s hearings.
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Victoria s former health minister Jenny Mikakos has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of political deflection over the inquiry into the state s bungled hotel quarantine program.
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Mr Andrews yesterday said if Ms Mikakos was still health minister, he would have expected her resignation
Ms Mikakos said the inquiry failed to answer key questions and called for the Premier s phone records to be released
Security companies vindicated as Andrews apologises for hotel quarantine debacle
Security companies vindicated as Andrews apologises for hotel quarantine debacle
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Private security companies claim they have been vindicated by the final report of Victoria s hotel quarantine inquiry, which blamed systemic problems in the Andrews government for the failure of the program to protect the community from coronavirus.
The report, released on Monday after reviewing more than 70,000 documents and six weeks of hearings, identified flaws with almost every aspect of the Victorian government s set-up and oversight of the quarantine scheme for international arrivals. What would be completely unacceptable to me is to run : Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
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