Some residents claimed they were wrongly detained and threatened during the snap 14-day lockdown in 2020. Read more:
A man gestures from a window inside a unit at the public housing tower along Racecourse Road in Melbourne, July 2020.Thousands of residents forced into a sudden COVID-19 lockdown in public housing towers in Melbourne in 2020 will be eligible for $5 million in compensation.
The plaintiffs claim people were wrongly detained for up to 14 days and threatened with physical harm if they tried to leave the towers, however the state of Victoria denied those claims.Melbourne's 'rushed' public housing lockdown breached human rights, Ombudsman finds "I feel very disgusted in terms of this offer, but we have to actually work together as a community to move forward," Mr Berih told ABC radio.
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