Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the hotel quarantine inquiry has not requested his outgoing telephone records to fill in a mystery six-minute window which could shed light on who decided to use private security guards.
09/10/2020 “She’s not even asked,” Mr Andrews said of Jennifer Coate, who leads the inquiry. “If requests were made … of course we would provide and be cooperative in any way we possibly could.” Sky News host Peta Credlin grilled Mr Andrews on his reluctance to freely provide the evidence – pointing out the inquiry does not have the power to request the records. “It is not in their power,” she said.
“But you, as an individual, your chief of staff and Mr Eccles can willingly provide that information now and completely clear up this six-minute period that has been, I think, the subject of a lot of debate and conjecture, you could clear that up tomorrow with your own free provision of records available to you now.
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