Brett Sutton did not do a press conference for the 10 months leading up to his resignation announcement – but the Andrews government denies he was blocked from speaking publicly.
When asked directly if Sutton had been gagged, a spokesman for the Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said “no” and pointed to
The head of La Trobe University’s Centre for Health Communication and Participation, Dr Rebecca Ryan, said there may be a valid argument that Sutton was no longer the right person to regularly front the media. That’s because while some Victorians admired his work, for others he represented the worst time in the pandemic.
It also meant that vulnerable people or others who were using masks, for example, were increasingly ostracised – a trend Ryan said was not just occurring in Australia, but overseas as well. “Communicating via daily press conferences was the quickest way to get information out during the peak of the pandemic – we are no longer in that phase,” the department said.
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