Victoria’s workplace health and safety regulator and Office of Public Prosecutions have some explaining to do.
The collapse of WorkSafe Victoria’s pursuit of the Health Department over the government’s hotel quarantine program provides a fittingly shambolic end to a lamentable failure of public administration and accountability.
This ruling is based on a broad provision in Victorian law that enables people to appear as witnesses at royal commissions or before other inquiries without fearing that the information they provide will be used against them in other proceedings.It is no technical loophole but rather an essential safeguard that helps public inquiries get to the bottom of contentious issues.
The OPP also has some explaining to do. Instead of abandoning the case against the Department of Health once the judge handed down his ruling, it could have sought a stay of prosecution and given WorkSafe an opportunity to use its investigative powers to fill in the evidentiary gaps.
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