Hotel quarantine inquiry: now Daniel Andrews faces the security guard question

As the final witness at the inquiry he established, all eyes will be on Victoria's premier

As the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, steps up to give evidence to the hotel quarantine inquiry he established to determine the cause of Victoria's second wave of coronavirus, one question that has vexed the inquiry remains unanswered: who made the decision to use private security guards?

The inquiry has heard 99% of the more than 18,000 cases of Covid-19 and 750 deaths in Victoria since the end of May can be traced back to outbreaks transmitted from returned travellers to staff at two quarantine hotels - the Stamford Plaza and the Rydges on Swanston. Those outbreaks could have been foreseen if the program had been set up with a greater focus on health, the inquiry heard last week.