Last Friday, Luke Ashford told Victoria’s Hotel Quarantine Inquiry how — when seconded from Parks Victoria and put in charge of quarantine operations at Melbourne hotels — he was given an hour’s training in ‘Equity and Diversity’, but no training in the use of PPE or on infection control.
A clip of his deadpan responses — propelled by the transparent honesty of his answers, the absurdity of the situation and his admission that he resorted to ‘intuition’ — went global.
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