Foley declined to touch upon his dialog with Glass, telling The Age: “I don’t need to get right into a public slanging match with the ombudsman.”

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A number of sources mentioned he expressed the identical factors to others within the room as he did to Glass.

A written assertion from the ombudsman mentioned she “disputes anybody raised issues along with her through the launch in regards to the appropriateness of her launching the guide”.

“Had anybody raised such issues, she would have asserted that it was totally consistent with the messaging of her public stories. The ombudsman launched the guide, Lockdown, in view of its relevance to her two stories tabled in parliament on the general public housing towers lockdown and border closures. Her remarks on the launch served as a reminder that the problems and suggestions in these stories raised.”

Glass started her speech by saying she spent a part of her latest vacation deciding whether or not to launch the guide. She famous ombudsmen had “by no means been on the Christmas card checklist on Spring Road” and “in the event you observe something on social media, you’ll know I’m both a Liberal stooge or an Andrews lapdog”.

Within the speech, Glass, who has been a thorn within the facet of the federal government through the pandemic, mentioned she was “incensed” the Andrews authorities refused to apologise for locking Flemington public housing residents of their dwelling with none discover.

“The response was ‘we make no apology for saving human lives’. This isn’t what I mentioned they wanted to apologise for,” she mentioned.

“What adopted was actually fairly ugly public commentary to the impact of, ‘in fact they needed to lock all people down or they might have all escaped and that will have endangered all the remainder of us’.”

She mentioned her stories on the tower lockdown and NSW lockout didn’t criticise the insurance policies. “It was the best way they did it,” she mentioned.

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“The purpose I made on each circumstances, which the federal government pointedly prevented in its failures to apologise, was there have been cheap options that will have revered folks’s rights with out compromising public security.”

“If there’s one phrase I’d use to explain my very own criticism of the federal government’s pandemic response, it will be ‘nuance’. Or extra appropriately, lack of nuance.”

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