Victorian public housing tower residents agree on $5m compensation for COVID-19 lockdown from government
Victorian public housing tower residents agree on $5m compensation for COVID-19 lockdown from government
Melbourne public housing tower residents will receive compensation payments of about $2,200 each from the Victorian government after they were forced into a sudden hard lockdown during a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
Melbourne public housing tower residents will receive compensation payments of about $2,200 each from the Victorian government after they were forced into a sudden hard lockdown during a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
$2,200 is pretty paltry... what those residents were put through was pretty awful . It was a tough time for all Melbournians I can't imagine what it was like to be essentially under guard in those towers. .
What they were put through was a lockdown. Same as everyone else, just because theirs ways specific to a building instead of the whole suburb or city is a good thing.
What they were put through was a lockdown. Same as everyone else
Was your home surrounded by police with no explanation, no warning, and no arrangements for food? It was very much not the same as everyone else.
In other apartment buildings with cases, people were given written notice and expected to self-isolate.
A Victorian Ombudsman's review later found the lockdown was "rushed" and "not compatible with the residents' human rights".
Several residents have called on the government to issue an apology, but it has refused.
The failure to offer an apology was fairly predictable but it's still extraordinarily disappointing given both the events during the lockdown and the warnings that had been given to government in the months before the lockdown, and in a few instances before COVID entirely.