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Will Victoria’s quarantine disaster see ministers – or their bureaucrats – in the dock?

13 August 2020

5:00 AM

13 August 2020

5:00 AM

It’s hard for Victorians not to be angry over the Covid-19 crisis. You can almost feel the widespread fury directed primarily towards Premier Dan Andrews.  

The hotel quarantine failures of earlier this year are largely recognised for the outbreak crisis. But who is to blame? Should or will anyone be prosecuted? They are many questions. 

Should the individual security guard/s who allegedly had sex with quarantined hotel ‘inmates’ face jail? Are security guards who let people out for shopping or a smoko at fault? Should the security firms and their managers be liable for bad managerial control of the guards? 

Who stopped the use of police and Australian Defence Force personnel to control the quarantines and...

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