Graham Ashton
A uniquely Victorian problem: Inside fight to save the state’s triple-zero service
The story of the breakdown of Victoria’s triple-zero ambulance system is complicated and multi-faceted – ESTA lost its identity as a vital emergency service and the government lost sight of the vital role the agency played.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Melissa Cunningham
Latest
Bali bombing top cop confident new TV drama will get it right
Richard Roxburgh plays Graham Ashton in the new four-part series dropping on September 25, three weeks shy of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
- by Karl Quinn
It shouldn’t have taken a crisis to fix triple zero, says union
The Ambulance Union says minimum safe staffing levels should have been in place before the pandemic, as the government promises to release the latest review into ESTA.
- by Aisha Dow and Rachel Eddie
CBD
City life
Wanted: Cooker, some pressure
High stakes culinary role up for grabs at one of Melbourne’s most famous mansions.
- by Noel Towell and Samantha Hutchinson
Damning report says top police 'lacked moral clarity' to fix Gobbo mess
Royal commission has delivered a damning assessment of Victoria Police's recruitment and management of barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo.
- by Cameron Houston
Explainer
Informer 3838
The Nicola Gobbo, Lawyer X scandal explained
Who is Nicola Gobbo? What did she do? Why was it so bad? And what has the royal commission's final report found?
- by Tammy Mills
Previously withheld hotel quarantine emails show Sutton's turf war with emergency managers
Victoria’s health department has been forced to release emails previously withheld from the hotel quarantine inquiry that reveal a bitter internal turf war about who should have been in charge.
- by Richard Baker, Tammy Mills, Michael Fowler and Chip Le Grand
Victoria Police told in March police and ADF to provide quarantine security: AFP
AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw says a meeting of state police commissioners prior to March 27 discussed the expectation that police and the ADF would be used for hotel quarantine.
- by Anthony Galloway
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
The six missing minutes at the heart of the hotel quarantine mystery
On a hectic day, the decision to put private security guards in hotel quarantine seemed to emerge from nowhere. The inquiry has narrowed that decision down to a series of texts and six minutes of nothing.
- by Michael Bachelard
Hotel inquiry still in the dark about security guards in quarantine
Text messages, meeting notes and phone calls involving former police chief Graham Ashton show how rushed the decisions were but do not reveal who made them.
- by Michael Bachelard and Tammy Mills
Analysis
Informer 3838
With cops in the gun, royal commission holds fire
Investigation into lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo has implicated current and former police in criminal conduct. Just don't expect anyone to be charged.
- by Chip Le Grand
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