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GBM Resources enters joint venture with Novo Resources for Malmsbury Gold Project
Both companies view Malmsbury as one of the most prospective and underexplored high-grade gold projects in the Victorian Goldfields, displaying many of the geological characteristics of the Fosterville epizonal orogenic gold deposit. A diamond drilling program is expected to start in the June quarter 2021.
GBM Resources Limited (ASX:GBZ) has executed a formal purchase and joint venture agreement with Novo Resources Corp (TSE:NVO) for the Malmsbury Gold Project in the prolific Victorian Goldfields.
The Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) and Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) approvals remain as the final steps of the formation of the joint venture (JV) and are expected within the March quarter of 2021.
Licence renewed for security firm at centre of hotel quarantine fiasco
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A security company involved in Melbourne s deadly hotel quarantine outbreak has had its licence renewed by Victoria Police after being allowed to continue operating on an expired security licence for the past six months.
Unified Security Group was granted a three-year extension on December 26 by Victoria Police s Licensing and Regulation Division, after submitting its renewal application a day after its licence expired on June 21 last year.
Unified Security provided guards at hotels including Rydges on Swanston, the source of the most significant outbreak from hotel quarantine.
Australia: Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry finds “failure of governance”
The Board of Inquiry into Victoria’s disastrous Hotel Quarantine Program delivered its final report on December 21. Genomic testing has revealed that the state’s second wave of COVID-19, which resulted in 801 deaths and more than 18,000 infections, almost certainly originated in two of the hotels used to quarantine returned travellers.
Predictably, the report is a whitewash. Justice Jennifer Coate’s recommendations call for little more than further investigation “as to the lines of accountability and responsibility between Departmental heads and Ministers.”
Justice Jennifer Coate during the hotel quarantine inquiry (Screenshot from public hearings)
 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.