Sky News host Paul Murray says “Chairman Dan” was yet again, today, proven a liar.
Sky News host Paul Murrays says “Chairman Dan” was yet again, today, proven a liar.
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton admitted on Wednesday, to the inquiry into Melbourne’s hotel quarantine system, he did not know the program was going ahead prior to its announcement. Mr Murray says there is more information revealed, by the day, about just how false the premier’s claims were regarding ADF responses and ADF being ready to assist in hotel quarantine.
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Premier Andrews ‘caught telling absolute porkies’ about hotel quarantine | Sky News AustraliaLiberal MP Tim Smith says “once again Daniel Andrews has been caught talking absolute porkies” in relation to Victoria’s failed hotel quarantine program.\n\nThe federal government submitted evidence to Victoria’s hotel quarantine inquiry on Tuesday contradicting Premier Daniel Andrews and Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp’s assertion the ADF never offered assistance for security in hotel quarantine in Victoria.\n\nMr Smith said “Andrews told a parliamentary inquiry just some weeks ago that he recalled no such offer”.\n\n“The man is a liar,” he said\n\nMr Smith said the “negligence of the Andrews government” had cost over 700 deaths, hundreds of thousands of jobs, livelihoods and businesses.\n\n“The Andrews Labor government couldn’t manage hotel quarantine and then the contact tracing was literally that of a third world country which ensured that we have had the longest lockdown in the world, even longer than Wuhan,” he said.\n\nImage: Getty
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