Leaked text messages have revealed Victoria’s police minister questioned the need for the defence force to guard hotel quarantine rooms.
Victoria’s Police Minister Lisa Neville’s private text exchanges with the state’s Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp on June 25 have exposed the resistance to the involvement of the Defence Force.
“OK … not sure what they do at hotels given no one leaves!! And they have no powers,’’ Ms Neville replied. Earlier, Victoria’s most senior public servant revealed he was unaware how it was decided to use private security in Melbourne’s troubled hotel quarantine program.He was asked by counsel assisting, Rachel Ellyard, if he knew how the decision to use private security for the scheme came to be made.
Mr Eccles attended the national cabinet meeting on March 27 in which it was announced hotel quarantine for returned travellers would come into effect.
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