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Qantas and Jetstar flight crews who live in Sydney’s northern beaches will no longer operate on flights from today, a spokesman for the airline has told the Guardian.
On Monday the NSW chief medical officer, Dr Kerry Chant, was asked whether airline crew who live in the cluster should be working on flights given the lockdown in the area.
The private security industry has welcomed today’s release of the Coate inquiry into the Victorian hotel quarantine program, saying it “broadly endorses what the security industry has been lobbying for over the past 20 years”.
The Australian Security Industry Association Ltd (ASIAL) said the findings highlight the shortcomings in Victoria’s regulation of the industry, as well as “inadequacies in training, supervision and safety equipment provided to security officers”.
Read the original article at The Guardian