A ‘grubby secret’ about Victoria’s COVID 19 outbreak will soon emerge Credlin

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Sky News host Peta Credlin says a “grubby secret will emerge” as to why the Victorian government decided against involving the police in the security of hotel quarantine.

Unlike hotel quarantine facilities in other states which employed either police or the Australian Defence Force, the Victorian government outsourced the security of the venues to private security who allegedly had little training.

The hotel quarantines have since been identified as a major source of Melbourne’s second COVID-19 outbreak.

“I have been told the police union did not want to babysit the returning passengers,” Ms Credlin told Sky News host Alan Jones.

“Then there was the outsourced players, the private contractors, who came in, and that’s where the risk happened”.

Ms Credlin said there has quite clearly been a “systemic failure across every level in Victoria”.

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