What Neil Mitchell finds ‘obscene’ about damning Triple-0 review findings

Neil Mitchell says there’s an “inescapable message” in the damning review into Victoria’s crisis-stricken Triple-0 system.

Former police commissioner Graham Ashton headed up the review, which was made public yesterday and contains 20 recommendations including rebranding ESTA as ‘Triple Zero Victoria’.

The review found “continued and systematic underperformance” within the Triple-0 system.

Neil Mitchell says one thing is clear from the review: “The Andrews government has got blood on its hands”.

“People have died waiting for ambulances. Now if the system was working properly the ambulance would have been there or had a chance of being there,” the 3AW Mornings host said.

“The system was not fixed. It is now quite obvious from insiders the system has been broken for as much as 10 years.

“The Andrews government has been in power coming up to eight years.

“Don’t cop this nonsense that the Andrews government is spruiking about the review into the Triple-0 system — they are dodging responsibility.

“But this report is not rocket science. It’s basic and sensible. It’s advising sensible change — change that could have been implemented and should have been implemented before all these people died.

‘The unions have been screaming about Triple-0, the public has been screaming about Triple-0. The government was asleep and people died because of it — that is obscene.

“Somebody somewhere has to wear this. But more than that, more important perhaps, the government wears the blame as a whole.

“They failed, people died, some people who should be alive are not as a result of the government’s failure.”

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