News
Victoria’s former health minister has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of “political deflection” over the bungled hotel quarantine program which led to the virus escaping, killing 800 and sending the state into a three-month lockdown, while the former police commissioner says whoever made the private security call was “determined to stay anonymous”.
Opinion
The report into Victoria’s hotel quarantine bungle has revealed disturbing insights into the processes and “ruthless incompetence” of the state government and bureaucracy during a public health emergency, argues Mirko Bagaric.
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No individual made the decision to hire private security guards to oversee returned travellers in Victoria’s hotel quarantine, the final report into the bungled program has found, as relatives of some aged victims consider a class action against the state government.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has backed making Australians returning from overseas pay for their two-week hotel quarantine stay.
A hotel set to be built on a local heritage-listed Pirie St site has been cut back by six storeys and $30m from its original plans, with work now set to begin in early 2021 – a year later than originally scheduled.
A 26-storey tower originally approved as an apartment block on Franklin St is now being considered for approval as a hotel instead.
The Hyatt name will return to Adelaide for the first time in a decade, with the announcement of a 27-storey, $180m hotel to be built on the site of a heritage-listed building the Adelaide City Council didn’t want demolished.
