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Margaret Simons

Victoria’s locked-down towers: 32 skipped hours revealed decades of problems

“A very dark episode in our recent history,” is how Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass today described the hard lockdown imposed on public housing tenants last July. She was releasing the report of her five month inquiry into the lockdown, which has found that the state government violated human rights law.

An even more eloquent description was given to Glass by the Deputy Chief Health Officer, Annaliese van Diemen, who was a key player.

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