Australia’s mostly successful management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by shifting and debatable trade-offs, typically between the disease and the economy. In a similar trade-off, the Australian Press Council has agreed with The Australian Financial Review that our naming of Apollo Global Management’s Tom Pizzey as the unknowingly COVID-19 infected person who visited two Barbeques Galore stores in Sydney in May was in the public interest.
Contrary to NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard’s claims, there is no evidence that identifying Mr Pizzey discouraged others from being tested for COVID-19. Edwina Pickles
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