Sky News host Peter Gleeson says the daily blame shifting by senior bureaucrats and senior Cabinet ministers in Victoria over the hotel quarantine fiasco “would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious”.
Sky News host Peter Gleeson the daily blame shifting by senior bureaucrats and senior Cabinet ministers in Victoria over the hotel quarantine fiasco “would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious”. Mr Gleeson said integrity is one thing in politics that can’t be faked. “You’ve either got it or you haven’t and the Victorian and Queensland governments right now don’t have it,” he said.
“It is literally eye-watering to see grown men and women running away from their shared responsibility, which has specifically resulted in the deaths of hundreds and hundreds of people. “Jobs Minister, the hapless Martin Pakula, Police Minister, the hapless Lisa Neville and of course today, the hapless Health Minister Jenny Mikakos, they've have created a triple dead heat for the worst ministers in Victorian political history”. Mr Gleeson said the ministers “need to go”.
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