A rift appears to have formed between the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Emergency Management Victoria (EMV) over Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine, which seeded the state’s second virus wave and hard lockdown.
Last month, Fairfax released leaked emails revealing that DJPR warned lead agency DHHS and EMV over problems surrounding hotel quarantine in late March, but both agencies failed to take corrective action:
Top bureaucrats warned senior health officials at the beginning of the Andrews government’s botched hotel quarantine scheme that security guards were ill-equipped for the work and demanded police be called in to take control…
