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Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal

  • Written by Mirko Bagaric, Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology
Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimalJames Ross/AAP

The final report of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, issued by former judge Jennifer Coate, outlines monumental errors made by the Victorian government and its public servants.

Despite this, the governmental failings that led to a second wave of the pandemic, resulting in 800 deaths, are likely to be politically irrelevant.

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