ADF ‘should have been called to Victoria months ago’

Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith has criticised Premier Daniel Andrews for his "panicked" mishandling of the state's coronavirus crisis, saying the military should have been called in months ago. "I wonder what on earth Daniel Andrews was thinking, why he didn't have the ADF in place months ago, as was taken up by Gladys Berejiklian in New South Wales," Mr Smith said. More than 1000 Defence Force personnel will today be deployed throughout Victoria following a request from the Andrews government to assist with curbing the spread of the coronavirus. "This bloke down here, Chairman Dan, reckons he knows everything," he said. "Well, it's been proved pretty dramatically in the last couple of weeks he doesn't. The military deployment cames after the state recorded its eighth consecutive day of double-digit COVID-19 cases. "Clearly something's going very wrong in Victoria. We're heading in the wrong direction and the rest of the country is heading in the right direction," he said. Mr Smith pointed to poor messaging from the state government on Black Lives Matter protests as one of the key contributors to the increased number of cases. Image: News Corp Australia

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