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
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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.
The...