Michael is joined by John Ferguson, Associate Editor The Australian, who writes of the bungling of Victoria’s hotel quarantine that the guts of the judicial inquiry can be boiled down into the following main points.

‘Who knew about the problems with the system, what was reported to authorities and who failed to act?’

‘And to what extent has the hotel quarantine debacle fed through to the soaring number of cases that have crippled Melbourne, probably led to deaths and has slammed the brakes on the national economy.’

‘It’s no surprise Labor is petrified about the outcome.’

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