How Australia defied global health authority on coronavirus

Was Australia about to put the cash flow of its universities ahead of the peoples' health in the middle of a pandemic? Was the Morrison government about to bungle the coronavirus response as badly as it did the bushfires?

"At this stage," Tehan had said, "we are looking at year 11 and 12 students but the medical advice has said in a week we could look at what would happen with tertiary education students."So the moment that the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister had finished their routine opening remarks to the Coalition party room on Tuesday morning, the smooth-faced Liberal senator from Victoria, James Paterson, took the floor to speak.

Another Liberal, Queensland's Andrew Wallace, wanted to know why the school students who were to be allowed to return to Australia from China were treated differently to university students? But it lasted less than 24 hours. On Wednesday morning, a copy of a speech by Tehan circulated among alarmed government members. The Education Minister was speaking to the Universities Australia national conference on the other side of Lake Burley Griffin that morning.

Curious to find what info is around for handwashing As this is one of the best ways to prevent coronavirus And most info sites don't have the best hand washing technique taught at uni to nurses. So posting: Video by WHO for this best technique

One of the best protections to prevent coronavirus is handwashing So it's no joke..tho have seen many ..so tweeting this As not much info I've seen has the best hand washing technique taught at uni to nurses. This video by WHO for this best technique.

Yep, World Health Organisation is a scam front, such as the World Banks, for corruption of power!

A large percentage of Australians live week to week on money, for food, fuel, rent, bills. If a town or city or business gets quarantine and people told to stay home how will people afford to eat and pay rent? Does government have contingency plan for this real scenario?

It is also a reminder that (unlike the summer bushfires) the Federal Government has clear constitutional powers to act on quarantine and border security.

What sort of utter garbage is the smh writing here? Let's see how ahead we are in a month. auspol coronavirus

Don't take in any students from China if you think you can avoid succumbing to China's pressure.

Rubbish. So our medics are ahead of the game but not our climate scientists. Joke “journalist” writes twaddle in order to collect pay. 🤡

Good for you Australians! Been saying for ages the WHO are as useful in this as chocolate teapots!

what a BS article. It's bad enough, Murdoch running cover stories for the LNP but Fairfax media is no better. LNP is not ahead of anything. They did EVENTUALLY restrict flights out of China but everything else has been mixed messages & by the seat of the pants!

And the sports Rort needs to be pushed away

He was a bit behind actually the WHO awarded Singapore Gold Star for their quick response

A smart distraction from sports rorts & bushfires. The Quiet Australian wouldn' even notice

Bullshit, ScottyfromMarketing found a distraction from the sports rorts, he doesn't give a shit about coronavirus, this is just more spin.

Need to ban entry from Italy and Korea as well

It’s ok if Aus gov doesn’t trust China’s data. But compared with data of Italy Japan or US, China is 99% transparent at this time. Stop political biases! Do something to your country!

If Scott Morrison really want to protect Australia, he should issue same travel ban to Japan Korea Italy Iran and US. But he did nothing bc he only listen to what US gov told him to do... sucks

That’s fun🧐how about the “ahead of the world Australia” tell it citizens their media sometimes is foolish and naive😒 this can’t stop people from thinking your opinion is based on the political issue to against China😏Pls tell truth!!!

Wish they would stop patting themselves on the back. It’s going to hit and when it does we will really see ho

Good job Scotty

Just a bit of scare mongering by our saviors in gov. We will all be forever grateful.

That article is nonsense. It doesn't have an argument or clear explanation that justifies the headline lisazdavies auspol

Is Australia ahead of anywhere else

NOBODY is buying this. 🙄 After his inept response to our fires, he NEEDS to be “seen” as on the front foot. Optics, people. Optics. That’s all he has. ScottyfromMarketing auspol coronavirus

Where are all the religious flunkies telling us this is God's work condemning, gays, adulters, blah, blah, blah.

Could also be because the PM urgently needed a distraction 🙄

Oh .. would that be called political pressure on the independent WHO ... like the political pressure on career public servant who destroyed her notes ....

Basically we are Fukt

it’s political...

No!!! Because the govts late knee-jerk reaction to the bush fires could not happen twice. That would be political suicide.

olive_new “Don’t look there. Look over here!!!!”

Rubbish! More like Scott Morrison couldn't miss a self marketing opportunity. It has ScottyFromMarketing all over it? auspol

So that people forget how incompetent Morrison is along with sportsrorts and bushfireaustralia . Btw he is still not banning other severely infected countries that are more threatening than China

And it was a handy little distraction from sports rorts.

Um no

Because SmoKo could do this without having to do any real thinking or work

um, lying propaganda, no. we lagged behind the world on covid19 and still do.

Good work ScoMo, of course the MSM will never admit you did a good job

Australia is lucky country to have free Medicare for all that is why Corona virus has litle chance to create major pandemic as in US 🇺🇸 and many other countries where poor canot aford to visit doctor as no medical cover.

Smart move

Or, just hear me out, it could be because CrimeMinisterMorrison wanted the sportsrorts off the front page

Yeah OR... it was a much needed distraction from sportsrorts

Well done to the doctors & scientists who are the ones working on a vaccine to combat this virus. Morrison was a month late in mentioning the virus, then waves around a picture of what the virus looks like (so brave !!) The moves he made were shambolic which was no surprise to me

Not to mention they discovered cocaine kills the virus. So all the cokeheads are safe. But the hot summer and spread out population would help hinder the spread here. I doubt it was the government policy to fund viral research, they are too busy giving money to Abbott’s boat club

'Why were the Australians ahead of the world? For a very simple reason.They don't trust the WHO. The information from multiple international sources is that the WHO is under intense pressure from the Chinese government, and succumbing to it.'Now why is the US response slow again?

I wouldn't trust the WHO as far as I could kick them I don't trust our shit marketing guru much either but more than WHO

Dear , NOT AHEAD, about to get stomped!

Yet there is no travel ban to South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan.

Let's roll out the bois for comment

Having a isolated continent with existing high bio security measures might be a factor you would think....unless you were a French polisher

How long till he caves in to the universities need for there cash cows to return.

Bacteria & viruses grow quickly in humid mild temps We had a hot dry summer, so it seems we've done well stopping the spread of coronavirus but the hot dry weather is the reason we never have an outbreak of the flu in summer. Covid_19 in a virus just as influenza is a virus.

Perspective...Fairfax media is owned by the NaziMurdochs...so...consider the source of this 'story'...

Nah. Smirk and Mirrors needed a distraction from sportsrorts and the crap economy. coronavirus auspol

johnshakespeare - Gold! 🏅

Why some universities compensate money for mainland Chinese students back to Australia transit via other countries? This is ahead of the world ban mainland Chinese students

Well China did control the narrative of what they wanted everyone to hear regarding stats and data of new infections from the start with no one being allowed in to monitor what was happening.

This is just the start so let’s wait and watch before patting each other on the back

While Scomo really sucks at managing bushfires, he's revealed himself to be an absolute gun at passing out the tissues. SwingsAndRoundabouts

It's not ahead.. It's Scott Morrison pretending he is on the front foot... You have been had.. He played you well 👍🙄

How’s that Sports Rorts high corruption investigation going?

Lol Australia sat back with a wait and see approach. It was a least a week before they began doing anything. They should have listened to Crypto_Bitlord. He was there reporting on it giving the cold hard facts when it was being ignored by our government.

Why don't you ban South Korea and Italy? They are getting much more serious than China right now.

Gobierno Chino miente con las cifras

Bullshit Tampa moment. auspol . Normally we would believe the government but trust is lost with this government.

But Australia wasn't ahead.... Just because they banned students return to their studies numerous flights every day left for and came in from China, thousands of tourists every day back and forth. Just because no-one been diagnosed as dying from it doesn't mean it hasn't happened

Keeping everyone out except fee paying students? Not quite evidence based policy.

ianfarrow Any fool can deduce official numbers coming out of Beijing are rubbish. Even a dunderhead can look at Type-C infectious disease data from Nov & Dec 2019 & see what game CCP is up to. Glad Aus gov takes it serious (1) Nov (2) Dec

We are also a smaller, more spread out population on a very warm island continent.. surely that has been a massive advantage?

Or to take attention away from the sportsrorts?

Corona-virus, The Morrison Govt is doing an excellent Job, Thank U 2020 Feb Corona-virus NO Deaths in Australia Israeli researchers make breakthrough in development of coronavirus vaccine

We have to be ahead of the game because we are plagued with Chinese people here.

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