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And they’re prepared to pay an eye-watering amount – up to $360,000 – for the right person.

News by Anthony Piovesan   Daniel Andrews "endorsed" the controversial decision to hire private security guards in Victoria's first hotel quarantine program, according to a new report. The Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) report, authored by opposition MPs and was tabled in parliament on Tuesday, found the decision to use private security guards was made by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The report also said the decision was "more likely than not" made by Premier Daniel Andrews' secretary Chris Eccles. "We also find the Premier en...

Documents revealed under FOI show pressure was applied to the supposedly independent regulator, the Environment Protection Authority, to force through...

Advertisement Cathy Wilkinson’s first day as boss of the Environment Protection Authority was undoubtedly a trial by fire. At 7.30am on August 30, 2018 the EPA’s crisis response centre received an alert that an "eight alarm" emergency had been declared in West Footscray. Firefighters were battling the worst industrial blaze in two decades at an illicit chemical waste dump that was spewing a toxic smoke plume across the city and turning a nearby creek into a river of fire. The aftermath of the fire at the West Footscray factory. Credit:Joe Armao As EPA air and water pollution experts scram...

Australia: Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry finds “failure of governance” The Board of Inquiry into Victoria’s disastrous Hotel Quarantine Program delivered its final report on December 21. Genomic testing has revealed that the state’s second wave of COVID-19, which resulted in 801 deaths and more than 18,000 infections, almost certainly originated in two of the hotels used to quarantine returned travellers. Predictably, the report is a whitewash. Justice Jennifer Coate’s recommendations call for little more than further investigation “as to the lines of accountability and respo...