Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos appears to have misled the inquiry into the botched hotel quarantine program after claiming the first she learnt of the involvement of private security guards was in May.


https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/health-minister-knew-about-private-sec...

bobby, as if the ABC would go hard on Dan.

the ABC staff all have posters of him over their bed like the citizens of north korea have Kim Jong

he dares to call himself a leader..

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has admitted he doesn’t know who made the decision to contract private security to guard returned travellers in hotel quarantine.

The spectacular admission is contained in his witness statement to the hotel quarantine inquiry.

Mr Andrews was asked “Who made the decision to engage private security contractors in the Hotel Quarantine Program?”

“I do not know who made that decision,” he wrote.

He said that after National Cabinet determined to introduce hotel quarantine, he expected a mix of personnel would play a role in the program including Victoria Police.

“But the way in which that decision was to be implemented, including the mix of personnel that would be engaged and their respective roles, was an operational matter,” he said.

“That is similarly so in the management of other disasters. For example, I have no role in determining the mix of staff and allocation of tasks during a catastrophic bushfire event.”


Asked if he supporting using private security going forward, Mr Andrews said: “My view as to the engagement of private security contractors in any future iteration of a mandatory hotel quarantine program will be guided by this Board of Inquiry’s findings and recommendations.”

NOT AWARE OF ASHTON TEXTS

Mr Andrews said he was not aware of anything that would have led then Chief Commissioner of Police Graham Ashton to text AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw saying private security would be used in the Victorian quarantine program.

Texts previously tendered to the inquiry show Mr Ashton texted “Mate. My advise (sic) is the ADF do passenger transfer and private security will be used” in the early afternoon of March 27.

“OK that‘s new,” Mr Kershaw replied.

“I think that‘s the deal set up by our DPC (Department of Premier and Cabinet). I understand NSW will be a different arrangement,” Mr Ashton said, adding that he had spoken to NSW Police commissioner Mick Fuller.

so there you have it... a horse..[govt] with no head..

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hes very good at not answering a direct question isnt he...

maybe been taking lessons from shortarse.

KangAnon wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 3:54pm:




oh noooooooooooooo not another TRUMP thread   pullllllllllllease....

can either you or gweggy talk without mentioning trump???

Aussie wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 3:59pm:



Don't bully dear Cods.

Bobby.......If I am bullying Karen, she is bullying Peccery and The Kangaroo and Marla.  What goes around comes around.

Aussie wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 4:07pm:



no pet  I dont follow them around   in fact when it comes to trannie shhhhhhhhehe follows me around..

get your facts right before you come on complaining.. whiner.hevin.e

Bobby. wrote on Sep 25^th, 2020 at 2:06pm:


Watching it too.

The part that annoys me much... Dan was aware that the offering and use of the ADF was commonwealth funded, whereas getting private guards was a Victorian tax paid situation, I’m saying...we pay for that....when there was a chance to get the ADF (which we as tax payers have already funded...hubby says ... he’s determined to make Victoria broke!
I say... if this private company he hired was to come out of his pay packet... he would’ve had the ADF quick smart pronto!

The questioner just said it was a national response to the pandemic, not a Victorian one.