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Victoria put the strictest conditions on it's people and completely dropped the ball on the protection measures it could control.
Those two things can be true at the same time.
NSW had a big stuff up too, the rest of the states learned quickly from that. WA learned fast when people were breaking out of hotel quarantine to bring in the ADF and police guards - not everyone followed suit.
Morrison and his opening up the borders and restrictions to get back to work isn't helping.
The feds are still backing Palmer and his court cases against WA and QLD.
Just read he had a 2 hour discussion with Trump on how to control the virus.
Think that tells us all the intelligence of the man
The thing is, if Victoria had not let the entire nation down with it's hotel quarantine protocols (or lack thereof) we actually could have the borders between the states open and everyone at work.
A hard border for international arrivals and strict quarantine would have had Australia at zero community cases. Except now we have 2500 mostly in Victoria and nobody should be opening their borders up to them because of it.
Eventually I expect we will have a federal quarantine facility through which all international arrivals pass and Australia will be covid free and living normally behind that robust protection.
That was a big problem too, but these are two distinct intrusion events.The Ruby Princess disaster was the catalyst . Victoria might not be in such dire straights if the NSW govt and the Aust border force did their jobs.
Amazing how people forget the original disaster that was the Ruby Princess.
That was a big problem too, but these are two distinct intrusion events.
One of which was well into the process compared to being the first cruise ship to arrive.
Pointing the finger at Victoria is disingenuous.
The NSW gov stuffed that up massively and they should be facing the music over it.I can't accept that excuse re the cruise ships,
Cruise ships were known to be covid carriers . To let those passengers disembark with out any health checks and disperse to all parts of Australia was a disgrace. Most of the covid deaths in Aust are traced back to the Ruby Princess,.
Dutton and the NSW govt stand condemned for their ineptitude .
We all know the rumours re who was amongst the passenger's .
Certain American church members who were allowed without checks and restrictions to travel around Australia for a church gathering.
There should be a royal commission into the debacle instead of the investigation by a known govt lackey.
By the way has any body heard from the investigation or has it been swept under the carpet like robot debt,
How did the covid app perform , millions of bucks spent on not one tracing.
Pointing the finger at Victoria is disingenuous.
Trendies these days are generally more concerned with the big indigenous issues like changing the Australia Day date or a bloke getting booed on the footy field a bit.
Surely it's also unconstitutional to knowingly put West Australian lives at risk? If COVID breaks out here again like Victoria, people will die....
It's a politically no lose scenario for McGowan in this court case. If the court rules in favor of border closures then he wins, if the court rules to open the border and cases rise at all, McGowan isn't at fault. Current dialogue is that we should expect an inevitable outbreak, well the border being opened will present the perfect political insulation.
Mark is very good at getting in front of the camera and delivering his message in a relatable way. It will be very easy to sell even a state government failure as "this is what we were fighting against, they made us bring down the border and look what happened as we all knew it would"
Thought right wingers were for stronger borders??
Only when it suits them I guess.
Mark is doing a fantastic job and will win in a landslide. The only person with egg on his face is potentially scomo and Christian porter.