Victoria’s contact tracing still a confusing mess

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In August’s Four Corners report on Victoria’s bungled hotel quarantine, Australian Medical Association (AMA) president, Julian Rait, described Victoria’s contact tracing system as shambolic:

STEPHANIE MARCH: As the number of new cases climbed the state’s contact tracing system was failing to keep up… There are multiple accounts of the contact tracing system’s dysfunction…

PAT McGRATH, REPORTER: (To Julian Rait) So how would you characterize Victoria’s public health response to this pandemic?

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.