The announcement came over the plane PA system as the flight from London — carrying a friend returning from a funeral — taxied to the terminal at Sydney airport.
Consider this: if my friend had landed in Queensland, she would have had to go into 14 days home quarantine. In Western Australia, into 14 days hotel quarantine at her own expense. As the former head of the Department of Health, Jane Halton, told 7.30 this week, the value of the restrictions is questionable when the rate of COVID infections in Australia is now higher than in the US or UK. Closed international borders were one of the first things governments did to "keep us safe". But they aren't working anymore.
Next pandemic will be all right.
Amazing you finally caught up
Hill song concert
They made no sense two years ago! Where have you been ABC?
Where have you been ABC for the last 2 years? The government and bureaucratic overreach has been first class.
The ABC will criticise the feds wherever possible but the fact is, it was mostly the Labour states with the most archaic, inhumane and nonsensical rules that started two years ago. Wake up latingle and the rest of your colleagues.
The sit down rule at pubs would have to be the most ridiculous rule every invented. Drove me out of a job I loved that. Along with the constant rules around dancing etc etc. Absolute farce
No fuxking shit. Rats bailing on the sinking ship?
True. Please open the border for any person who is fully vaccinated.
You are double vacced, but cannot do anything. Everything they say just stresses the fact that its not working.
The airlines want your money but don't give a damn if you make it to your destination ?
Too true. Melb daughter and son-in-law both positive within days of each other. Daughter ICU nurse went back to work day 7. Son-in-law unable to visit his palliative care grandmother in same hospital for 30 days. All fully vaccinated. Unfortunately she died today.
It doesn't help that the media aren't moving forward with their reporting and are still focusing on case numbers when we know we're all going to get it
Along with them continually changing and no clear direction of what the end state will look like
Finally some journalism at the ABC 2 years in.
No shit! Can go to grocery store, can’t go to cafe. Wear mask inside cafe, take mask off when eating and drinking in said cafe. No musical concerts, Hillsong festival. Can’t travel, Actors and mining magnates in you come!
Australian rules are always bended to serve the shameless political gangsters in Australia 🤣🤣
The mess is created by the State Governments for not being in line with all requirements. That's why in a National Emergency situation and response, it should only be the Federal Government handling the situation, regardless of which political party.
You have only just worked this out🤷♂️🤦♂️
you’re a bit late ABC. They haven’t made sense for 18 months or so l.
No actual prevention methods for covid or treatment. Resting at home with a hot cup of tea is all they can come up with after 2 years. Vaccines are clearly not performing as promised but no DR will get off their high horse and admit this though vaccines do appear to help deaths.
Closing beaches, wearing masks outside, not being allowed outside, lockdowns including the beach for 1 or 2 cases in a city of 2million. Wearing masks which are not N95 quality or with nose out is a waste of time. Letting it rip after 2 years of authoritarianism. Nothing adds up
This will form part exhibit A, in Djokovic's argument to the Court. The neurotic schizophrenic conduct by Australia is a clear sing they are contaminated by US policy.
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Another news agency undermining what restrictions different states are clinging to. Of course each state has different criteria. Each state has always had different rules. All Australians know that. The testing is a complete stuff up creating this situation.
And abc is throwing petrol on the fire
Feeling hopeless and confused for long periods of time is debilitating and that's why we're all so bloody angry and depressed.
Funny how we are surprised that states make different decisions. We have different rail gauges in each state and only took till the 1960’s to have a standard gauge across the continent. Nothing’s changed
Glad your bow onboard . Now use every press conference to hammer all pollies on their ridiculous policies.
How is scomo the cover its andrews who has been smashing victoria!
It only makes sense as a power grab 1930s Germany style, Vax don't work, Children have natural immunity, Mandates are violations of himan rights, The EU have found vax is breaking down the immune system, How is any of this justified? Gallipoli disagrees with cowards.
What’s sad is that people are only now getting angry. Should’ve happened a year ago
I think opening up is going pretty well. Remember the lockdowns and fear generated 6, 12, and 18 months ago. Rather have these transition problems any day and Think elections will go to those who want to open up fully V’s those that want to return to those dark old days..
Where was this article when outdoor exercise was limited to 1 hour and there was police tape covering children’s playgrounds?
Was this article written by Raf_Epstein or PatsKarvelas ? Oh wait sorry they have been the key enablers of Dan and his useful idiot Sutton’s ‘lock down the playgrounds’ ‘don’t watch sunsets people will die’ ‘lockdowns/zero COVId strategy is working’ and on it goes. 🤡
The ABC is only just realising that all these rules don’t make sense!? I could see the writing on the wall in early 2020 when all this 💩 started, and here we are now - Australia has fallen to become like the failed state of Zimbabwe.
BREAKING NEWS
There is currently no Government in Australia.
Ok is suddenly alt right, anti covid?
It’s the inconsistency between states too
Mask in restaurants and cafes are useless so you know
Health First and Staying Safe.
This is not analysis it is opinion. Analysis goes behind the headline to investigate the background to a story. It is based on facts. Opinion is one persons take on a story based on their experience. It is open to challenge from someone who disagrees.
SloMo has repeatedly put the garden hose down when someone yells ‘fire’.. his dereliction of responsibility and accountability is immense by any measure. If ever there was an oxygen thief in a chair they know they shouldn’t be in, it’s him in his PM tenure auspol
Absolutely the rules don’t make sense. I have yet to find someone who can explain to me why non-Australian parents are considered immediate family, but non-Australian children are not.
What’s abundantly clear is the inability of our Federation to function collectively. The Fed doesn’t hold the power needed for National response. States all act Independently- need a new structure for ‘Australia’
This pandemic has shown that we are state & territory 1st & Australian 2nd Federation does not bind but cause unnecessary conflict & cost. Need to think whether we come truly one nation of Australians or completely control own State & Territories affairs
It's way beyond making sense With current death numbers We are going to average between 2 and 4000 deaths every month in Australia & politicians and the media wonder why we are angry Australian people in the fight of their life, politicians and media gaslighting AusPol2022
Haha 😂 don't know what to do? Send them to Afghanistan for training.
National Cabinet is a farce. It’s a secret society where Scott Morrison is pulling the others’ strings. All we get is crap & spin from ScottyTheAnnouncer after these meetings. It should be disbanded. auspol
Christmas was the turning point for people. We trusted state and feds when they said “we got this”. No ability to self test, no motivation to WANT to self test, if you are a vulnerable person guessing you’ll be feeling pretty abandoned right now as everyone thinks “stuff it”
Anger builds as politicians make decisions that direct more pressure and angst on health workers, the retail workers and our elderly. Politicians receive free RAT tests, readily available to their network.Selfish and professionally self absorbed liars.
No mention of the waste of time 'checking in'?
Good to see an opinion piece rather than so many journalists summarising the facts.
“Every state and territory now has their own rules” Now? Always have “The idea that someone might have done some sort of stocktake of the collective national supply & worked out where the holes were seemed to be too much to expect” Yep! Every jurisdiction has been caught short
Yes, they don’t make sense, they’re often illogical and we, the public are fed up with being told what to do!
And what responsibility are you taking as our freeloading news agency?
Not sure why closed borders “kept us safe” is in scare quotes. They actually did. And they still are, in places that didn’t scrap them.
The testing regime is obsolete and broken. Only test/treat those who have symptoms and assume everyone else is infected. Scale-up mask-wearing/hygiene/social distancing measures until hospitalisation/ICU numbers level-off and decline. Help those at most risk self-isolate.
So true re border, why is it shut? My SIL is denied a visa. Why
I wish woukd stop calling it analysis when it's actually opinion. It's nit just latingle - it's most articles labelled as analysis that present a point of view rather than data, logic, and reason. Opinion is fine - should just be labelled correctly.
4 hours to be a close contact. Could a Prime Minister say anything more dodgy? All Liberals need to be voted out of federal parliament.
All the states have different rules that's the confusion and they want to blame the federal government .
I promise you in 3 weeks from now, no one will care about RATs. We have a much bigger problem, and no one is listening. This supply crunch didn’t start 6 weeks ago, outages in medications alone have increased from 60 in May 2021 to over 400. Based on my numbers by March 1600
latingle Excellent article. Thank you for being the voice of sanity amid the chaos. tingleforpm
Meanwhile friends from KL moved back to Queensland and have to do 14 days home quarantine fully Vaxed and PCR negative. While asymptomatic Positive cases in Queensland isolate for 7 days only. Fun times in OZ 🕺🍻🥳
latingle kudos for exposing LNPfail for not being prepared even after 2 years into the Pandemic!
The politicians are a threat to Australia, Not Novak!
THIS IS THE WORSE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER SINCE FEDERATION AND MOST CORRUPT LYING DISGUSTING DISHONEST DISGRACEFUL BASTARD EVER. Call that Election now Australia can not wait to kick your Arse out of Office KICKING AND SCREAMING
Sorry ScottMorrisonMP lockdowns are not optimal. It’s disappointing. MarisePayne thank you for cancelling belt and road agreement. I’m disappointed that DanielAndrewsMP signed this. It was poor for Victoria & Victorians. We deserve better. MatthewGuyMP michaelobrienmp
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