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Jun 17, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
OL @michaelobrienmp asks @MartinFoleyMP about his senior adviser Mat Hilakari being "outed as a branch stacker" by former federal minister Stephen Conroy at ALP conference in 2016. Can Foley guarantee his office hasn't been used for branch stacking #springst #QT
Mental Health Minister @MartinFoleyMP says Mr Hilakari didn't start working for him until 2017. @michaelobrienmp says he's referring to 2016 because it goes to Mr Hilakari's character. Can Foley guarantee no staff in his office have branch-stacked #springst #QT
Min @MartinFoleyMP reiterates his line yesterday about expecting all his staff to act appropriately but avoids guaranteeing that they have. In response to a subsequent question from @michaelobrienmp he denies his office has ever been used for Socialist Left faction activities

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May 27, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of Vic casual workers are locked down at home today and don't know when they'll get their next pay cheque. The other three times we were locked down, most were eligible for JobKeeper. This time, there's crickets from Canberra so far.
This was @GregHuntMP on ABC AM earlier:
"Well, at this stage, Vic is the responsible body. They have said that they will be providing additional support."

"So nothing from you?"

"...And we take them at their word. I think we’ve all up provided extraordinary support so far."
Lane: "No help for businesses this time?"

Hunt: "This is a difficult time, and I’ll leave those matters to the Treasurer, but it’s the Victorian government that has indicated that they will be taking measures."
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Oct 2, 2020
.@VictorianCHO said today of workers moving between hotel quarantine, aged care & public housing between July 27 and late August: "It was never one where you could just step in and say, ‘You cannot work in more than one setting'." #springst
Except @DanielAndrewsMP *did* tell hundreds of thousands of people, including entire industries, that they couldn't go to work when we went into Stage Four lockdown from August 2 because the risk of transmitting coronavirus was too high.
And yet we're supposed to believe that workers who were ultimately working for the government, in hotel quarantine - the setting we all knew even then had likely caused the second wave - "couldn't" be told that they weren't allowed to also work in aged care homes.
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Sep 29, 2020
Nine staff members working at two quarantine hotels in Melbourne have been infected with coronavirus since the Andrews government’s program was overhauled and largely shut down in late July theaustralian.com.au/nation/coronav… #springst
This includes a DHHS staff member, a Vic Police staff member, two Alfred Health staff members and five employees of cleaning & catering company Spotless.
Of the Alfred Health & Spotless staff, the government says: "Acquisition has been assessed as most likely occurring from community transmission outside of the health hotels." How they reached this conclusion is not clear.
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Sep 23, 2020
“She said that in all the union’s dealings with the health minister, ‘not once has she displayed even a basic understanding of her portfolio’.” Health Services Union boss Diana Asmar is not holding back! #springst heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/le…
“Saying she ‘was accustomed to dealing with individuals who display pomposity and arrogance, even when their ability does not warrant it’, Ms Asmar denied the call was the result of a personality clash between the pair.”
“Describing her office as ‘utterly dysfunctional’ Ms Asmar said that since Ms Mikakos had become minister after the 2018 election ‘we have seen repeated mismanagement’ of the Victorian health system.
‘All Victorians are seemingly paying a price for her incompetence,’ she said.”
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Sep 17, 2020
#springst #QT kicks off with a question for @DanielAndrewsMP from @michaelobrienmp. He asks about the Premier's August 11 PAEC statement about ADF troops. How can Victorians have confidence in Andrews when that statement has been contradicted by the evidence of numerous others?
Premier says "cheap politics is no vaccine against this virus". #springst #QT
OL @michaelobrienmp asks again: "Who made the decision to reject the use of police and the ADF in the hotel quarantine program, rather than untrained private security guards?"
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Aug 7, 2020
A late Friday night thread on Twitter abuse and Victoria’s COVID-19 crisis, for those who are interested #springst 👇🏼
I temporarily deleted the Twitter app off my phone yesterday afternoon, because I simply didn't have the time or the mental energy to do my job and absorb all the mentions, direct messages, emails, texts, calls, WhatsApps and Facebook messages coming in: good, bad or otherwise.
Until I received a message from Health Minister @JennyMikakos just now - and I thank her for getting in touch - I knew people were saying some bad stuff but was blissfully unaware that the unhinged messages had even reached the point of including death threats.
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