Findings only add to political sledging
Findings only add to political sledging
December 22, 2020 10.00pm
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HOTEL QUARANTINE INQUIRY
Findings only add to political sledging
The ‘‘scathing’’ findings of the Victorian inquiry into hotel quarantine (‘‘Shoddy is as shoddy did, and 801 died’’, 22/12) highlight the use of a privatised and casualised security workforce as a primary failure. Does anyone really believe that Victorian Labor’s opposite number in the Liberals would have made better decisions, or been more likely to accept responsibility for fatal failings in the pandemic response? Does anyone truly believe that an approach which blatantly preferred the economy to humanity would have resulted in fewer deaths?