NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says “our message has always been schools are open for any child who needs to attend, that has always been the case throughout New South Wales”. Parents have been left confused after Prime Minister Scott Morrison has advised parents to send their children back to school while the Victorian premier said the state’s schools would remain online where possible.
“We anticipate that we will keep doing our learning from home for the first two weeks but then look at ways that we can reintroduce some face-to-face time and we need to do it in a way that our parents will be comfortable with,” she said. She said the approach to term two should reflect the attitude of the school community and they worked to cater to the different needs of teachers, parents and students.
smitchellmlc The schools are currently day care centres. Kids that are homeschooling are getting half their required education at best. How much longer can this arrangement last without kids having to repeat next year?
smitchellmlc Maybe for babysitting, they are not being taught anything. Just watching movies. Get the schools open so they can get an educational for God's sake
smitchellmlc No child is going to be turned back at the gate. Imagine this.. 'Hang on little Johnny, we need to check what your parents do for a living before we allow you in.' NSW and QLD Gov's both said this week that an essential worker is anyone who has a job and cannot work from home.
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Current school model 'child minding, not education': PM | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison says he would have his children back at school in a “heartbeat” if they were going to be taught, warning the current model is essential 'child minding”, not education. \n\nMr Morrison has been emphatic in his call for students to return to schools, insisting the health advice is that it’s safe for them to do so. \n\nHowever, the states have insisted kids should learn at home if they are able to do so and that schools will only remain open for students of essential workers. \n\nMr Morrison on Wednesday said his children will return as soon as the school goes beyond “looking at a screen”.\n\n“I kept my kids in school till the last week because they weren’t getting taught in school in that last week, they were looking at a screen, that’s not teaching that’s child minding,” he said. \n\n\nIt isn't just about, you know, that kids can can go along and sit in a hall and be minded, we want them to get educated.\n\n'We’re on school holidays in NSW so the kids are at home but I’d have them back in a heartbeat if they were getting taught at school... but at the moment we’re lucky they can have a learning environment at home.”\n\nImage: Getty ScottMorrisonMP Prefer the pubs opening. ScottMorrisonMP Prefer to have his children back or just enrolled? He's already mislead Australia once when he told us it was safe for our kids to be at school - but not safe for his. I suggest when his kids go back it'll be safe for others to. LiarFromTheShire ScottMorrisonMP What?
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Qld schools to go online for five weeks of Term 2 | Sky News AustraliaThe first five weeks of Term 2 will be conducted online for all Queensland school students, with an exception made for children of essential workers. \n\nEducation Minister Grace Grace said “teachers will have at their disposal all of the resources of the school and their classroom to be able to deliver a quality, remote education program”.\n\nA decision on what will happen after the five week period is expected around mid-May. \n\nImage: Getty Safe, but not safe, but safe. TommyBerry21 What a joke.. How are working parents supposed to get back on track? The virus is not risky to children or to healthy people under 60. How about the rest of us not in a risk category above medium get back to work and those above medium stay home?
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'Heads should roll' over Ruby Princess debacle | Sky News AustraliaShadow Housing Minster Jason Clare says an “independent inquiry” into the Ruby Princess debacle “has to happen and has to happen now” because of the damage it has inflicted across the nation and in particular north-west Tasmania. \n\nMr Clare told Sky News the unchecked cruise ship boosted the spread of the virus throughout Australia as one in 10 infections as well as one in three deaths stemmed from the ship. \n\n“There has been a massive failure of border protection here and it just goes to show if you don’t check people when they get off a cruise ship then it can cause all sorts of mayhem and we are witnessing that in Tasmania right now,' he said. \n\n“The government beats its chest and says how good they are at border protection, well they did a bad job here and as a result we are seeing bad results,” he said. \n\n“We need an independent inquiry to work out what happened and who is responsible. \n\n'Heads should roll.”\n\nImage: Getty JasonClareMP SOMEONE SHOULD TELL JACINDA ARDERN BECAUSE HER AND NASH WANT TO HIDE WHAT HAPPENED IN NAPIER. ONE DAY AFTER THE LOCKDOWN NAPIER CITY COUNCIL EXPOSED OUR PEOPLE TO COVID 19 IN FAVOUR OF THE BALANCE SHEET. PEOPLE ARE EXPENDABLE. WE LIVE IN THE RING OF FIRE! NCC IGNORES EQC JasonClareMP The staff at the hospital attended an illegal party. And nz are blaming the crew JasonClareMP CoalitionCovidClusterfuk
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'Inherent tension' between Trump and governors over restrictions | Sky News AustraliaUnited States correspondent Cameron Stewart says there will likely be ongoing conflict between President Donald Trump and the state governors over the relaxing of restrictions.\n\nThe president made indications that he wanted the economy to be opened by May 1, however he received resistance from the state governors over the move. \n\nMr Stewart told Sky News “state governors really control when you ease these social restrictions” and they are “very much more cautious” than Trump.\n\n'There is no way that state governors like Andrew Cuomo in New York City will advocate an early opening given the terrible death toll that they’ve had,' he said. \n\n“I think we’re going to have this inherent tension between the governors and Trump as to when the economy reopens.' \n\nUS health authorities have warned if the economy is opened too soon, the country could be subjected to a second wave of the virus.\n\n“If Donald Trump is seen to advocate a get-back-to-work ethos and he finds three months from now there is a second wave right near the election, I mean that could be certainly terrible for him politically,” he said. \n\nImage: AP realDonaldTrump I doubt there will be that much tension. The states will be flat broke by the time the prospect of lifting the lockdown occurs. realDonaldTrump Trump just about always wins at these situations.
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WHO condemned for supporting China’s deadly exotic food and bat markets | Sky News AustraliaThe World Health Organisation has ignored desperate calls from global leaders to ban China’s deadly and diseased exotic markets which were likely the cause of the killer coronavirus.\n\nWHO general manager Tedros Adhanom has failed to act on a bipartisan letter from more than 60 US lawmakers pleading with him to shut down every wet market in the world.\n\nInstead, Mr Adhanom’s organisation - which has been criticised for its ties to China – has supported reopening the exotic food markets.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison described the decision as “unfathomable” saying the wet markets were a “global health threat”.\n\n“Australia and the world will be looking to organisations like the WHO to ensure lessons are learned from the devastating coronavirus outbreak,” Mr Morrison told The Australian.\n\n “There must be transparency in understanding how it began in Wuhan and how it was transmitted. We also need to fully understand and protect against the global health threat posed by places like wet markets.”\n \nHowever, the WHO, which ignored early warnings of COVID-19 because it listened to false Chinese reports, says it supports the wet markets reopening in China.\n \n“With adequate facilities, proper regulation and good hygiene practices it is possible to have safe food sold in wet markets,” the WHO told The Australian. \n \nDemocratic Senator Cory Booker spearheaded the US request for a wet market ban, but he had support from all political parties, including Republicans Michael McCaul and Mike Quigley.\n \n'It is clear that to protect human health, these close and sustained interactions with wildlife must stop,' the politicians wrote in the letter.\n \n“As this pandemic continues to threaten the lives of millions, pushes healthcare systems to the breaking point, and devastates economies around the world, it is imperative that we all take action as a global community to protect public health.”\n \nThe World Health Organization has been silent on the issue which is also b So we should ignore the WHO. Pretty simple. They’re a bunch of communists no Australian voted for Well let’s just ban China then! Stop funding it
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Tasmania's COVID-19 cluster linked to ‘illegal dinner party’ | Sky News AustraliaA cluster of COVID-19 cases in Tasmania may be linked to an illegal dinner party attended by medical workers, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer has revealed. \n\nThe nation’s top health official was briefing a special select committee of New Zealand MPs when he made the admission. \n\nThe committee, being chaired by the NZ Opposition Leader, was set up to scrutinise the Ardern Government’s handling of the crisis. \n\nDr Brendan Murphy said while a passenger from the embattled Ruby Princess cruise ship was likely the source of the outbreak, the illegal dinner party may have exacerbated the situation. \n\n“We thought we were doing really well in the last week and then we had a cluster of 49 cases in a hospital in Tasmania just over the weekend. Though most of them went to an illegal dinner party of medical workers,” Dr Murphy said. \n\nFour of five of Tasmania’s recorded COVID-19 deaths have been linked to the cluster in the region’s North West Coast. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia The cause was actually a medical specialist who flew in from mainland Australia and wasn't tested or quarantined. Theyre not telling the full truth here.. “Illegal dinner party”...ridiculous
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