Gordon wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 10:13am:


A review of Victoria’s troubled security firms, released by the Andrews government amid coronavirus outbreaks spread among guards at the state’s quarantine hotels, details an industry beset by poor hiring practices and contentious subcontracting policies.

It found security guards were lowly paid, regularly lacked English-language skills, and are often so poorly trained they do not perform the basic functions of their job.

The Andrews government review, that covers the industry and the state’s 33,000 licensed guards, was released last week, days after guards were cited as the likely source behind outbreaks.

In March, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that more than a dozen Melbourne hotels would house thousands of travellers returning from overseas for a compulsory 14-day quarantine.

The review's release came as it emerged the state government had selected a NSW firm not on its list of preferred security companies to run security at nine of the hotels.

That firm, Unified Security, subcontracted out work to at least one smaller firm after being contracted.

Unified Security provided guards at the Rydges on Swanston hotel, where one of the two quarantine hotel outbreaks occurred.

At the 2018 state election, the government promised to review the laws covering an industry beset by transient, casual labour and guards with deficient skills. It is the first review of the sector in a decade.



I have forgotten which minister he handed this chore too... but he in turn gave it to a company that employed people affiliated with his fav Union......maybe a case of scratch my back...

now whos picking up the bill and I am sure the said minister is still picking up his salary

Gordon wrote on Jul 25^th, 2020 at 6:27pm:


I'm a bit over people making excuses for themselves and their own lack of any sort of common sense. Get a grip. Hotel quarantine was not introduced at the start of the pandemic, it didn't begin till several weeks in & by that time, information about covid was dominating the news stories. We were seeing China and Italy in trouble.

It's too simplistic to blame everything on Dan.
But if you read that report, the guards knew the people were in quarantine, they must have known quarantine was for a reason. I'd expect even a second class brain would have realised the guests were covid risks.

They were, as the report says,"

You don't wear a mask without a reason.
Folks, what we're looking at here is a lack of common sense by many of the guards and a neglect of their duties that bordered on criminal.

Some guards even let the guests go shopping. That's a huge difference to a supervised walk on a rooftop area. 

I believe the companies who supplied the services should be fined massively. Those guards who didn't follow even the basic directions should be fined too.

The government deserves to cop flak for not overseeing this better but if we want to go on from this (and the next bit won't be popular), since all our covid can probably be traced back to the quarantine hotels, what it means is one or more of the guards was muslim and then went to the big Eid celebration that was our next big spreader. The one where a big family gathering spread covid through many different suburbs. That gathering of what-30 or 40 or more people, was at a time when there were no more than 5 visitors allowed in a home.

So that's another slack guard. And at a time when the risks were very well known and we were just starting to emerge from lockdown.

Then you have the fact that one in four people who have lately been tested as positive to covid have not been at home. They are out at the shops or at work, despite the fact there is a payment for those people if they have no sick leave available.

So we have all these people who are using no common sense at all & just doing as they please, but then they want to put all the blame on Dan. Some of it yes, but obviously, you can't fix stupid with some people.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 10:13am:


Bobby: why are you posting videos from a convicted wife-basher?

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 10:37am:



stop lying   you sound like someone else on here....

but you dont mind liars do you?

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2020 at 10:48am:




only after the virus spread further and further and he knew it was out of control'


yeah a bit like shitting the door after the horse has bolted...

might have guessed you would approve.

my daughter was in iso in Melb at the same time as all this went on......she had meals left on the doorstep.didnt see a soul for 14days...shes on a diplomatic passport so that may have made a difference to where she was staying..but she had to clean her own room and change the bed.. shock horror..... then we read about the other debacle.....why shouldnt people be MAD AS HELL>..

this is breaking Australia   we are all affected.

Andrews