The Briefing

How did Melbourne get hotel quarantine so wrong?

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Quarantining international travellers has been a huge part of Australia’s successful management of COVID-19, however Victoria faces mass lockdowns in the face of a second wave. On today’s episode we find out what went wrong with Melbourne’s disastrous hotel quarantine management. Andrew Lund is the Nine News reporter who managed to get hotel security guards to speak out and joins us to dive deeper into what went wrong.

 

In today's news headlines:

• NSW to close the border on Victoria after spike, two deaths
• “It’s disgusting” Nine’s Brooke Boney backs Pauline Hanson axing
• Residents in locked down towers yet to receive supplies
• Scott Morrison wants penalties for 10,000 refusing tests
• Mark Zuckerberg to meet with civil rights groups after mass ad exodus

 

In today's Briefing we ask: was there any truth to the allegations that Security guards were sleeping with people in Quarantine? How did it spread beyond the guards into the community? Why did Victoria take a different approach and on private security companies? Who is to blame?