Sky News Political Editor aclennell is questioning why Victoria and New South Wales didn’t “swap notes on contact tracing and the like” months earlier.
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Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell is questioning why Victoria and New South Wales didn’t “swap notes on contact tracing and the like” months earlier. “It was a full day session involving a deputy secretary of the federal department of health, Commodore Mark Hill, who heads up the ADF response in Victoria, the Chief Scientist Alan Finkel and senior Victorian health officials,” Mr Clennell said.
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