Yesterday morning, there was a meeting of those involved in the relief effort, including @VicGovDHHS and other agencies, and the community advocates. The issue of how to organise exercise for the #33alfred residents was raised.
The idea of a temporary fence, creating a yard around the entrance to the flats, was raised and rejected by all present. According to a second hand report, a @VicGovDHHS representative present said something to the effect of the residents were not animals, and should not be caged
I have not confirmed this quote first hand. But community advocates understood that the fence idea had been rejected, and would not happen.
Nevertheless, in the mid afternoon they started receiving text messages from residents inside the flats who, looking down out of their windows, could see what they described as a "cage" being built outside the flats. More follows.
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