Experts Call for Mandatory Use of Victoria’s QR App to Streamline Contact Tracing March 16, 2021 Updated: March 16, 2021
The Victorian state government is being urged to make its centralised QR tracing app mandatory as pressure mounts for the state to improve its contact tracing system.
The call follows criticism from the Victorian Health Department, who blamed businesses for providing incorrect or incomplete QR code information used for contact tracing during the Holiday Inn Cluster outbreak that resulted in the state’s snap 5-day lockdown.
Currently, Victorian businesses can use either private record-keeping systems or the Service Victoria QR app. In contrast, other states such as NSW and the ACT have made it compulsory for businesses to use its centralised government app.
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The federal government recently suspended indefinitely a ‘star rating’ system that ranks privately-run employment services providers. Its decision has been described as ‘galling’ by unemployment support groups, as it comes at a time when the government is increasing its auditing of job applications submitted by unemployed people, as well as implementing a hotline for employers to “dob in” jobseekers that turn down low-paid work.
Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union spokesperson Kristen O’Connell contends the decision is
“an open admission that there are simply not enough jobs”.
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“It’s galling that the only system that measures job agency performance, flawed as it is, is being paused while at the same time the government is ramping up monitoring of unemployed people’s activities and introducing even more extreme and pointless ‘mutual’ obligations,” [Kriste