The thing about the question of who decided to hire private security guards for hotel quarantine is that it should not still be a question. It makes absolutely no sense that it is still in play, because it should be very very easy to answer.
It’s never been the main issue: the Vic public service habitually uses private contractors for a bunch of things, other states used private contractors too. It’s not inherently bad. What is bad is that it was managed poorly and training and supervision were lax.
So you have a question that a. should be very easy to answer and b. isn’t even the main question. Yet somehow instead of an answer we have FOUR MONTHS of evasion and misdirection from literally everyone involved, even when they were giving evidence under oath.

That’s weird.
Journalists are going to keep poking at it, because if there’s nothing else going on there then why all this evasion? It is so very deeply weird that we don’t know the answer to this question yet. All the mystery around it has made it a much bigger issue than it needed to be.
So yes: I like you am extremely sick of this question.

But also, if we just got a straightforward answer in, like, June, it would not still be a thing.
TL;DR: If you want journalists to stop asking a particular question then answer the damn question.

Not answering just makes it get bigger and bigger, you gotta pop that balloon early on.
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