With only weeks to go before the final Coate Inquiry report into Victoria’s shameful hotel quarantine fiasco is released, things are starting to get very interesting. 

As public hearings into the program, which led to the deaths of over 800 elderly people are now concluded, three key matters have become clear to those voters interested in truth:

• The government is working feverishly to retrofit respectability to a scheme manifestly wrong and discredited; 
• The saga has laid bare fault-lines of mistrust running deep within and across the political and administrative levels of Victorian state administration (including the police and other agencies) and between the...