WATCH LIVE: Former deputy chief health officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen is up before the inquiry into Victoria's ill-dated hotel quarantine scheme.
Today's hotel inquiry hearing is under way. You can watch it live, below:We're back. Former deputy chief health officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen is now up before the inquiry.Dr Annaliese van Diemen, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Victoria.The Public Health Commander has oversight of the public health response to an emergency, Dr van Diemen said.1.51pmThat was a huge first session with Professor Brett Sutton. Legal Affairs reporter Tammy Mills has been filing like a demon.
Professor Sutton did request assistance from Victoria Police – just not for hotel quarantine. He said decisions about that program were for those running it. People may have been released from hotel quarantine without knowing if they were positive for COVID-19 or not.AdvertisementAnd that's it from Professor Sutton. The inquiry will break now until 2.15pm, when his former Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen will begin giving evidence.Professor Sutton did request assistance from Victoria Police – just not for hotel quarantine.
Counsel assisting the inquiry, Ben Ihle, said those authorised officers would have included those working in hotel quarantine.Professor Sutton repeated he left the decisions about enforcement to those running hotel quarantine.A little back and forth between the lawyers over hotel workers and security guards.
The Chief Health Officer has just been cross-examined by Arthur Moses SC, the lawyer acting for Unified Security, one of three main security firms contracted by the government to work in the program.Mr Moses asked if he had of been aware at the start of the program in March that private security was being deployed, would he have raised the same concerns that he had about the transmission risk that the workforce presented.
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