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While Victoria's hotel quarantine inquiry has been marked by the poor recall of some politicians and senior bureaucrats, the seeds of disaster were likely sown several governments ago.

Yesterday, the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry held an extraordinary meeting to discuss contradictory and omitted evidence that has come to light after witness testimony finished earlier this month. You can watch short videos of the extraordinary meeting here and here. Following the meeting, Daniel Andrews' former right hand man, DPC secretary Chris Eccles, Victoria's ex-top cop

A medi-hotel housing repatriated Australians is being evacuated after the hotel failed an audit.

Vanessa Sierra apologises for hotel quarantine rant

'I feel like everything else has been taken from me.'

Hotel quarantine inquiry to reopen  Herald SunHotel quarantine inquiry calls extraordinary sitting for October 20  NEWS.com.auVictorian inquiry to hold extraordinary sitting, as PM says 5,000 to use Northern Territory quarantine facility – as it happened  The GuardianOPINION: Board of Inquiry was in danger of looking like a toothless tiger  Herald SunVictoria's coronavirus hotel quarantine inquiry to hold…

The inquiry probing Victoria's botched hotel quarantine program will hold an extraordinary sitting next week, almost three weeks after it received closing submissions.

Victoria Police backed the plan for private security guards to man Melbourne's disastrous hotel quarantine program, an inquiry has heard.

A man who worked as an authorised officer at seven different Melbourne quarantine hotels says he had no training in infection control, little understanding of what his actual job was, and quit after four weeks because he felt the job was so dangerous.

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Security guards at Melbourne's quarantine hotels cleaned toilets and communal areas such as lifts used by COVID-positive guests, the inquiry into the botched program has heard.

Last week, Victoria ceased accepting international arrivals at Melbourne International Airport, owing to the explosion of COVID-19 cases arising from failed hotel quarantine. This ban meant that 65 international commercial passenger flights due to arrive at Melbourne Airport between 1 July and 14 July would need to land elsewhere. However, the NSW Government over the

UK residents rage over Australia-style hotel quarantine plans

Hotel quarantined travellers in Perth have been banned from sending Christmas presents via their rooms to avoid potentially spreading COVID-19 in the community.

Victoria has recorded three new coronavirus cases in hotel quarantine, but the streak of zero locally acquired cases continues.

Readers discuss the pandemic, including whether the Australian Open should be held and the plight of people stranded interstate and overseas.

As global COVID-19 cases soar, six returning Australians in Queensland hotel quarantine have tested positive to the virus.

After the fatal flaws of its first hotel quarantine scheme, which relied solely on untrained private security, the Victorian government will launch its revised quarantine scheme on 7 December. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley has promised the system will be robust: "All Victorians can have confidence that the system that will be put in place The post Victorian Government reboots hotel quarantine system…

Another head has rolled as scrutiny continues to mount on the Victorian government's handling of its hotel quarantine program.