Melbourne’s hotel quarantine inquiry has solely featured ministers and top bureaucrats pointing at each other, but at the end of the day it is Premier DanielAndrewsMP who is “ultimately at fault,” according to Victorian Liberal MP DavidDavisMLC.
Melbourne’s hotel quarantine inquiry has solely featured ministers and top bureaucrats pointing at each other, but at the end of the day it is Premier Daniel Andrews who is “ultimately at fault,” according to Victorian Liberal MP David Davis. The Premier has signaled he will front the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry on Friday, and will likely be questioned about his role in the refusal of ADF support.
Asked by Sky News host Peta Credlin whether he believes the premier will tell the truth, Mr Davis said the inquiry hasn’t yet “heard the truth from anyone else”. “We’ve got this farcical situation where no one’s responsible,” he said. “They ran this hotel quarantine, yet no one’s responsible, no one knows who ordered it, no one knows who banned the ADF, no one knows who put in the private security people. “Daniel Andrews is at fault.
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