Federal MP Questions Melbourne Tower Lockdowns

Protective service police officers walk towards the Flemington Public housing flats on patrol in Melbourne, Australia on July 05, 2020. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

Melbourne’s severe lockdown of nine public housing towers to contain COVID-19 is adding to residents’ disadvantage, says a Victorian federal Labor MP.

Peter Khalil, the member for Wills, grew up in public housing in the 1970s.