Australians will no longer have to stay home after testing positive to COVID-19 after national cabinet agreed to make isolation a personal decision, a major shift two years into the pandemic.
The change from October 14, announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday after a meeting with state and territory leaders, means Commonwealth COVID-19 isolation payments will also end, except for casual workers in high-risk settings such as hospitals and aged care. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff at Thursday’s national cabinet meeting.The payments of up to $540 per isolation period, reduced earlier this month from a maximum $750, had cost the federal government $1.9 billion by July. National cabinet decided last month to keep them as long as mandatory isolation continued.
for mandatory isolation to be scrapped. He argued the time had come for personal responsibility to govern the decision of whether to isolate, saying: “If you’re sick, you stay at home, and if you’re not, you get out and about and enjoy life.”Albanese, premiers and chief ministers made the decision after receiving a briefing from Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, who chairs the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, made up of health chiefs from all jurisdictions.
The health advice seemingly of one person. God help us all.
First big mistake By Albanese. He is too interested in consensus and cares little for doing right by the most vulnerable like the immune compromised Australians. Has definitely lost my vote.
When do we receive the news that any side effects was your decision?
Breaking national cabinet has signed the death warrants of 1000's more & mass disability chronic illness, dementia & sudden death of millions. Whoopeee Wow how low have you fallen
Publish the overwhelming Medical Advice from all Medical Officer's.
Hallelujah.... should have happened 6 months ago.
AndrewsMustGo
Now get rid of the Mandates.
This will be fashionable until the next variant wave
What could possibly go wrong?
FFS AlboMP DanielAndrewsMP AnnastaciaMP
Aw man, I haven't even caught covid yet.
Sky News After Dark will be happy
😂😂😂 Cue the lunatics with alllllll the doom and gloom… Screaming 😱 hysterically That their Covid world is endingggggg ohhhhh noooooo
I’m shocked - this is baffling - especially from a govt (that I voted for) that said it gave science credibility
And yet we have double demerits this weekend on the road because it ‘saves lives’...
so the feds are saying it all over.......?
UK hospital Covid admissions went up 48% last week. I expect this economy before community bullshit from Perrottet, but this really is disappointing. NationalCabinet auspol
How about mandatory vaccines?
This is the advice AlboMP, national cabinet and state premiers relied on. Intriguingly it didn’t go to AHPCC or state CMO. Simply direct advice from Paul Kelly to PM. VictorianCHO timeline hints he has reservations
what is their rationale?
AlboMP Dom_Perrottet Insane! Just what we were being warned about! If we have Covid we should isolate! If we’re positive we can pass it on to any other person we come in contact with. The vulnerable. The essential workers. Our relatives. How much does long Covid cost?
Terrible idea
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