Program chiefs knew of hotel quarantine issues after two days
Explosive documents show senior bureaucrats were aware of problems with private security within two days of the hotel quarantine program being established.
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More heads must roll after hotel quarantine inquiry
Emails have revealed a request for ADF troops to help with our botched hotel quarantine was abruptly cancelled 12 hours later, for reasons no gutless official in the Daniel Andrews government will admit, and it’s time they stopped the charade, writes Peta Credlin.
Why the only real vote that counts is on election day
President Trump didn’t lead a single national poll ahead of the US election and yet the result has now been too close to call for days. So can the polling that suggests Dan Andrews remains popular with the Victorian people be trusted, writes Peta Credlin.
Hotel security company relied heavily on subcontractors
The Sydney-based security company hired to manage Melbourne’s hotel quarantine system was nowhere to be seen in the initial days of the program, a subcontractor says.
Victorians should question if hotel quarantine inquiry is a sham
How is Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry supposed to work out what happened with the bungled program if it doesn’t speak with the people who ran the security? The obvious answer is it can’t, writes Peta Credlin, and it’s wasting millions of dollars.
Vic’s second-rate tracing system shows Labor’s incompetence
The Premier has had months to fix Victoria’s broken contact-tracing system and the fact it still isn’t says everything about this government’s ongoing incompetence. They need to be held accountable or Victoria’s prospects will never improve.
We can’t afford an Inspector Clouseau hotel inquiry
The testimony of Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton — who told the hotel quarantine inquiry he never knew about private security in hotels when the emails he’d replied to showed he did — is untrustworthy. But why stop at him, asks Peta Credlin.
Credlin: How rotten does Victoria have to get before it’s enough?
We’re no closer to knowing who in the Andrews camp ordered private security for hotel quarantine, Sutton’s testimony has been called into question, and now he’s claimed he wasn’t at a meeting he, in fact, attended. When is it enough? asks Peta Credlin.
Tale of two premiers reveals a lot about Australian politics
The fact that Gladys Berejiklian is probably in at least as much danger from a mistake in her private life as Dan Andrews is from an epic failure of government says something about political culpability in this country, writes Peta Credlin.
Political cover-up will always get you
There has been an attempt to cover up the truth about who ordered the use of private security in Victoria’s hotel quarantine system, but the decision can be traced back to Premier Daniel Andrews’ private office, writes Peta Credlin.
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