What won’t be in the Victorian hotel quarantine fiasco inquiry report today

Justice Coate’s much-awaited final report of her inquiry into Victoria’s Covid-19 hotel quarantine rogram is due for release today.  

If the interim report is anything to go by, there will merely be findings on the various decisions of the government bureaucracies and recommendations for improving the program in future. Cold comfort indeed for the families of the 800 souls lost to Victoria’s second wave.  

Be under no illusion. Today will not be a day of reckoning for the Andrews Government. Don’t expect any blame to be placed squarely at the feet of any single, identifiable Minister; not when you can always blame an intangible, amorphous bureaucracy. Andrews has clearly taken his…