AMA lashes Victorian Health’s COVID-19 response

Tuesday 17 November 2020

The Australian Medical Association’s (AMA) Victorian president Julian Rait has criticised the Department of Health & Human Services over its COVID-19 contact-tracing system.

Rait has told a parliamentary inquiry into the state’s contact-tracing regime that the Department is ‘culturally flawed’ and must be more accountable and transparent:

“I think culturally there is a flaw in the department,” Dr Rait said.

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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.