Outgoing Health and Aged Care Department Secretary Professor Brendan Murphy has reflected on his time working with the government navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, expressing gratitude towards the media and public for being “very supportive”.
“We took very important decisions, governments did on our advice, to close borders and introduce hotel quarantine and to do those public health and social measures which were highly contested and we had to balance the risks and benefits,” he told Sky News Australia.
“People often ask me how I felt about it, well we didn’t have time to stop and think about how you felt, we just kept on going at that time.”
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