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.

'Ahead of the world?' You must be kidding.

Ahead? I fly into Perth every week, what is stopping me bringing in cov19? No checks.....sfa

5151mpk Fair point. 'Big Institutions' are merely humans but with a louder voice. They're not the authority on anything.

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Listen to this lot 😆

Who wrote this rubbish? Greg Hunt?

WHO CDC WorldBank COVID19 pandemic bonds Possible reason why WHO is not declaring a pandemic .

Because we far from every country, our luck is, we are isolated from rest of the world.

JackPosobiec Good for the Aussies. So many countries cowtail to China. Stand up for oneself.

Universities are concerned about the international students because of a lack of funding. They HAVE TO rely on international students for funing because the govt doesn't want an educated populace. ScottMorrisonMP response to this, like the bushfires, is pathetic.

JackPosobiec It’s summer time in Australia.

Rubbish....

Bullshit! It was to divert attention from the sports rort scandal sportsrorts CrimeMinister lnpfail auspol vanOnselenP

Disgusting friendlyjordies

rubbish... morrison is simply overcompensating His handling of the bushfire crisis was appalling, and proved him to be a woeful leader in a time of crisis. He's jumped the gun this time for the same reason.

WHO holds pandemic bonds

Why won't W.A Gov accept Pirbright NIV/ SwineFlu vaccine trial was also conducted outside China , didnt we consume the pigs ?

Why did realDonaldTrump urge ScottMorrisonMP to cease supplies of PPEs to China in October 19 ?

JackPosobiec WHO is too 'woke' to do real medicine even if it wasn't bought by China.

Tremendous reporting

Look at this !!! More media Bullshit trying to trick us into thinking this government is good !!! Sorry, not falling for it ScumMorrison

Ahead? Do not be so dramatic, ScottyfromMarketing jumped at this opportunity to take the focus off the massive RORTS they have done. They did not win that election fair & square. I don't think he is capable of doing one commendable act. auspol coronavirus pandamic rorts 🇦🇺

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There is a pandemic,its all about what caused it,and where it's origins are from! SOUTH AFRICA!

In my opinion it seems like it's a ebola solution born out of Africa..where mad Max fury road was made!

Morrison is not a real leader. He doesn't show initiative. The limitations of simply not being Bill Shorten.

SO NOW WE ARE MAKING VATS OF IT IN GEELONG.

I think this shows pretty good leadership and systems.I understand our chief medical officer can make decisions without political interference.

JackPosobiec Lol our government allowed god knows how many potential carriers back into the country because they didn't want to give them back their money to study here. Not to mention the Diamond Princess passengers who have been exposing medical staff because they didn't want to seperate

JackPosobiec Geography

Or because we are an island and that makes it a bit easier to keep it out.

ThisisRaysBlog Thankfully we have Scott Morrison in charge.

I still think they should closetheairports to all except emergency personnel. It's very likely to come via some tourist or other from outside Asia.

I don't believe it was or is ahead were only beginning to do something and that's not enough its only a short time ago the PM was saying its not a pandemic .

Indeed. Everyone ought to follow Aust's example and take the matter of this virus very seriously. libe LePoint RadioMaryja GermanyDiplo CzechMFA SlovakiaMFA PolandMFA LithuaniaMFA MFA_Austria

Looks like is getting onboard the sportsrorts diversion train and giving CrimeMinisterMorrison an easy out. Starting to smell like the easy ride the LiarFromTheShire had at the last election!!

Australia reacted because CrimeMinisterMorrison needed a distraction to cover up his lying and thieving governments sportsrorts which he is guilty of and he plays from John Howards playbook of fear and diversion. LiarFromTheShire

Plus the desperation of our PM to make press announcements looking like he was on top of this and not stuff it up completely like he did with the bushfires

JackPosobiec Plenty of resentment over Chinese wealthy types buying up real estate in Australia, so, naturally distrusting, and that distrust is reality-based.

Its shotgun Scottys Smirk Fest quick start new strategy. Ahead of the game by shooting first and aiming second. Protecting us from his late false starts in every other other tragedy he’s come out swinging. There’s a buck in it somewhere.

Because Australia 🇦🇺 has the best medicos/medical advisers in the world and we’re no longer waiting for other countries to decide for us!! coronavirus

Outright proof that is doing our governments bidding. They call it balance but it is simply propaganda

JackPosobiec WHO?

JackPosobiec Anyone else find weird both new cases Coronavirus unexplained found in California..What party controls that state Think and question daily..

JackPosobiec Agree!

JackPosobiec It also helps when they don't share a border. They shut down all flights and there is no chance of infection.

Are we going back to the days when we were sprayed with disinfectant before alighting a flight?

Nope. The government was in deep doo doo and has grasped this opportunity to appear competent with both hands and both feet

JackPosobiec It’s says “ahead” not that they don’t have it. Many Chinese students got around travel ban...as we can see virus has spread

Australia ahead of the world ? We need to do more!

JackPosobiec Interesting take.

I think the most telling thing is serious questions as to whether global organisations like WHO can be trusted or have been heavily politicised - this is a serious worry

And m e thinking it was a ' look over here' exercise .......

Me thinks it’s a diversion tactic from SCOMO ‘s problems 😀

Utter bullshit. The LiarFromTheShire deployed a classic look over here, not there at the sportsrorts or mybushfirefuckup . That's how ScottyFomMarketing works. Say something dofuckall .

More true blue Aussie xenophobia from ScottMorrisonMP

Unfortunately, Australia is one of the countries on top of the list of CCP's BGY campaign again the western world. B -- Blue -- hi-techs G -- Gold -- money Y -- Yellow -- women

Sono was criticised for quarantine at Christmas Island , seems he was right

Ahead? You're joking. This is just a distraction from the SportsRort affair and SlowMo trying to look like he's being pro-active instead of his performance during the fires.

Ozesurfer Nah. Simple explanation is that Morrison et al need a big distraction from their corruption and general malfeasance associated with sportsrorts and other nefarious grants. If it weren't the virus, it would be another so-called terrorist threat.

Murdoch strikes again.

Salty anti government commenters here should look at Iran and Italy, who were too late to close their borders.

Big bloody bollocks 🏐🎾🏀⚽️🏈! After all it is just an opinion piece - fact free zone 🙈

Don't trust chincomms and it's good to protect your people early

for the simple reason that Scott Morrison is an opportunistic grub trying desperately to mend his declining support.

invalid opinion....hahaahahah....paid by trump this article?...

Wth. Rubbish

Australia is not ahead of the world. They have said pandemic thats all. Done nothing about it, still slying in virus risks.

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