Victoria health officer found to not to have breached code of conduct with Captain Cook tweet

Deputy chief health officer Annaliese van Diemen had faced demands for her resignation after posting a controversial tweet

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Victoria’s deputy chief health officer did not breach the department’s code of conduct when she likened Covid-19 to Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia.

But she has since been spoken to about the potential for social media use to undermine community trust in the public service and has deleted Twitter from her work phone.

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