More Victorian hotel quarantine lies surface

On 26 August, Victorian Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp told the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry that he briefed the Police Minister and Emergency Services Minister Lisa Neville in the days leading up to the hotel quarantine scheme being launched:

However, yesterday Crisp performed a major backflip, penning a letter to the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry saying that he wishes to change his evidence, that he didn’t in fact brief Lisa Neville at all about these plans:

The Victorian Opposition leader, Michael O’Brien, Tweeted the below video evidence provided by Andrew Crisp pertaining to briefing the minister:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.