The Andrews government has settled a class action from residents locked up in public housing, despite the Premier repeatedly refusing to apologise for the pandemic decision.
About 3,000 tenants of nine inner-Melbourne public housing towers were detained in their homes in July 2020 to contain a COVID-19 outbreak, which saw armed police surround their apartments.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews refused to comment about the class action settlement. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw According to the Department of Health website, plaintiffs have one of three options; to accept the settlement, opt out of it or object to the government’s proposal. Police swarmed the towers and enforced locked downs to scared residents who had to go without food and medical supplies. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Daniel Pockett
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