A day later, the remarks drew the attention of Liberal frontbencher Tim Smith, who received criticism from some within his party last week after he lashed out at Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton on Twitter."Comparing the extraordinary first voyage of Captain Cook where he charted the East Coast of [Australia] for the first time to a deadly virus is disgraceful. You've lost the plot.
Former Liberal leader Matthew Guy quickly joined in, describing Dr van Diemen as "a complete fruitcake"."The Deputy Chief Health Officer is doing an outstanding job protecting Victorians from this deadly pandemic," she said.The comments come just a week after Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien told Mr Smith and Mr Guy to tone down their criticism of Professor Sutton.
"No wonder many Victorians are questioning why our lockdown has no end in sight; the Government is too busy playing politics on Twitter." The ABC has contacted the State Government and the Department of Health and Human Services for comment.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
RubyPrincess Sack Dutton coronavirus ‘spreader’ auspol
Smallpox, Coronavirus. Fair comparison.
Quite frankly I think it is fairly accurate depending on whether you were on the shore or on the ship. I also think those calling for resignations etc should gt a grip.
Why should she resign? She did mention a rather uncomfortable part of history, which this society needs to acknowledge. That may mean not hero-worshipping ancestors once the truth is known.
Resign? She should be sacked
There's some bigger factual problems surrounding you at the moment Australia_you're taking your eye off the ball by crucifying someone for their comments during high pressure times. focus - and watch from your glasshouses carefully!
She’s right though?
Well it certainly was like a virus to the inhabitants
She is supposed to be a clinician, not a politician. Stick to your job.
To all those man babies upset about this i say, they were both unwitting killers... there does that make you feel better ?!
You know life is good and easy for someone when from the luxury of their $350k secure public service job they can throw hand grenades to deliberately offend all good hard-working Australians. A true leader would demand this health novice stay focused on the crisis.
Got to be bent
Heard bits of the situation I'm sure The Indigenous People of Australia would completely support the connection. Bless Them and their way of Life taken from them So sorry Xxx🙏💞💞💞💖 DON'T SACK HER💞💞
Per capita, Cook & the colonisers were far more lethal.
Sack this tone deaf person now! Australia would not be the beautiful nation it is today if it were not for Cook and the English who came here. What does she hope to achieve by saying this? Should we all just pack up & leave? Deeply offensive.
So from her tweet, her opinion of the Chinese is as low as the British. Strange woman. She needs to stick to her day job. annaliesevd
Has nobody pointed out that this Captain Cook / COVID19 tweet might be a personal family gripe? This is about Van Diemen's Land being renamed isn't it? 🤣
She's just done an Analytical comparison of both situations that came to this Land. Both were Foreign & Both were & are not Welcome respectively . Where does Sacking or resign come in. Long Live Australia.
It's a wake up call. Only a ripple of truth in Cooks story and Pacific ocean legacy While tsunamis of consequential evidence, verifies Health Officers statistic backed opinion. NTTimesGazette China led worldwide Lockdown, capitalistic seek to condemn.Surgical truthtelling.
She is a disgrace - let’s hope she is not reflective of the hierarchy in the department
That is so pathetic of them..
Well ask the Aboriginal if she is right?
Suggested edit to the headline: 'Opposition attempts to spark culture war after DCHO mentions historical fact'
In respect of history, She is right.
Yes resign
Been watching too much of the Donald it seems.....
Boy, the world sure hates an educated woman with a good line in pithy comments, doesn't it? yassmin_a CaptainCook
Well she’s right. Why get the sack for telling the truth. I’m white as they come my father was English and I love the English people but just the same Captain James Cook besides all the good of him was also a trigger happy musket toting cold blooded murderer and the list goes on.
Not professional at all
This person wouldn’t be a doctor if it wasn’t for the British settlement of Australia🙄🤔
She is totally correct in what she said
Conservatives hate the truth and have obviously never read a history book about that decimation of aboriginals, including genocide in Tasmania.
Made me giggle.
Your discussing should not be in office accepting tax payers money. Youre incapable of doing your job & blame on others, just shows you're complete ignorance & culture
Seems like a fair comparison to me
someone cant resign for a truth, even if people “feel” uncomfortable. Cooks and subsequent arrivals in Australia wasn’t a good outcome for traditional aboriginals. Australia isn’t unique with the consequences of an arrivals. I think she is right to point out our history
Oh no she voiced an opinion. Woman can't do both. Have a career and a point of view. Wtf is wrong with you people calling for her sacking. White privilege under threat.
This feels like Israel Folau all over again. All people are entitled to freedom of speech. freespeech
haters gonna hate.......she makes a valid point.....imthe introduction of small pox wiped out thousands of Aboriginal people due to white settlement fact
Can’t have activists in bereaucracy - irony here is this tweet is from the ABC. Our national leader in activism
If she feels so strongly about it why dowent she Give up eveeyrhing she has to an aboriginal family?
Thought she was being so clever when all she was doing was displaying ignorance and bias.
Good call. The truth always upsets the greed creed.
'Victoria' is where scrolling down becomes imperative.
Captain Arthur Phillip arrived with the 1st fleet to colonize 18yrs later. But hey, sure.. you think that was wrong but you choose to live here... The way the left think is nothing less than hugely entertaining. Aboriginals would steal be eating eachother, they did the pigmeys
Really crappy headline
Lefty idiot that is all too common in this Vic gov
Left/right Who cares She made a very good point
get her on jobkeeper now...
The Victorian CMO, deputies and staff did not have to come up with a tweet like this to look ridiculous. That happened the minute they closed schools, banned fishing and playing golf.
No! She stays!
You call for her sacking but when the NSW health minister let's in a boatload of disease ridden passengers nothing ?
The left are never short of inane culture war virtue signalling even from a senior health officials during a pandemic. Pathetic
Well she should. Total disrespect and lack of understanding of her position. Happy to take her $ 350,000 income. Shame on her...we are Australian past present and future..🇦🇺
The truth hurts eh? truth
Why does she have time to post anything like this on Twitter? Oh, that’s right, COVID has been overblown and she is twiddling her thumbs. Stop this nonsense and open the schools!
Do they really have nothing better to do in a global pandemic ?
Her judgement cannot be trusted so she has to be sacked.
Well it's a pretty crass thing to say... so yeah... sack her....
If her job is to keep us safe by emphasizing just how dangerous this virus is, then (a) it's an excellent metaphor (or analogy or simile or whatever) and (b) she's definitely doing her job well.
Meh, truth hurts.
I'm stunned you even reported this
Feigned indignation from an opposition party looking to find a modicum of traction. The defenders of colonialism are out in force attempting to remind First Nations people of their rightful place in society .Yes masters !
JPMiniatures on topic?
Well I thought their ABC could not be any less Australian....But you were well beaten by disgraceful Quack..... Expect better work from thr ABC next year's at begging in Australian
it’s not the comment so much as her stupidity
We are back to the Liberal far right culture warriors attacking young women. So much for the Covid crisis. auspol leave the Vic Deputy CHO alone.
The 'Culture War' claim is a tactic to confuse and diffuse the actualities that occurred initiated by Howard. The demands of resignation is a continuum of colonial based viral policies. -
SophiaLipschul1 RESIGNRESIGN VictoriaDeputyHealth Person
Should we be placing trust in the Government’s actions if this is the mentality & maturity of the officials Need to question what we are being led into!
And she is the Deputy Chief medical officer!!!!!! Ok then..........these types should read up on their history and find out the alternative to Cook landing here, if the Spaniards or Indonesians had got here first, umm there would be no Aboriginals here today.....justsayin
It's what Morrison is doing now, spreading disease by opening up schools and nursing homes prematurely - Enabling massive unclean church gatherings, then letting RubyPrincess in to dock to let his Hillsong buddies off to infect Australia with COVID19.
This sort of shit plays right into actual misogynists hands. This is what promoting on gender not merit gets you.
She’s obviously mentally unwell.
Seems like a lot of brainwashed lunatics carrying on about an invasion 250 years ago,not much chance for Australia's future with ratbags like this thing running around.
I never saw.a virus map the world, conduct scientific investigations, and use a telescope.
Can’t disagree with what she tweeted if you look at it objectively.
Maybe give her a job with the ABC? She seems to fit their Western / anti Australian narrative.
She is correct the Aborigines were conquered. That’s the truth. Can they move on now the truth has been told?
Completely agree 💯 with her comparison
JaggerMickOZ Congratulations to the abc for actually reporting this, I’m genuinely surprised. Still, abc is the first $1bn that should be saved from next years budget.
While she's in that position, maybe focus on the job, not on opinion. Kinda get your point but it was really poor judgement and not even useful
She should be sacked now it’s beggars belief
Captain Cook doesn't deserve to be insulted with being compared to Coronavirus by some SJW Chief Health Officer in Victoria. Captain Cook was one of the greatest explorers in World History that he even had great admiration for Aboriginal way of life as he said in his journals.
Both foreign influences that caused death and devastation. Seems fair.
wakes up!!!! Hooray!!!
Released on April 29th - The First Pandemic is one of seven stamps designed by Chips Mackinolty in memory of the 250th Anniversary of COVID-1770
Honestly, does this fool need to be reported on ABC?
matthewhayden Horrible woman.
Wow she really twisted their knicker elastic with that one.
Damn the snowflake anti free speech right at it again smh
JaggerMickOZ ignorant sad typical
That's what I call u university stupid. Lacking common sense completely.
JaggerMickOZ Another bipartisan & neural expert who leaves their biases at the door. And these clowns have infiltrated literally every part of our lives.
Wow... I didn’t Cook n others bought in virus and shot the first people. It was allWHITE washed in my poor public school books with one word “Colonised”
I can understand the analogy, it’s the type of thing a nut case like me would say to bring a reaction but to come from someone with the high power position that especially at these times requires calm leadership beggars belief. I worry about the future of the human race
Well it wasn’t like Captain Cook didn’t invade Australia and that didn’t result in the death of thousands of indigenous Australians.
She tweets as poorly as she does her job
He was a lieutenant when he 'discovered' Australia
We could have saved the Pacific from a whole lot of infectious hell, when he came to 'Dinner Island' / Samarai in the China Straits. If only we stewed him in a claypot then.
What a disrespectful low person. Where I come from people like this are known as Sh** C***s. I am proud of both our white and black heritage.
That’s too funny is this thing on?
She only asked a question ... no opinion given...
Imagine if it wasn't cook?
Maintain the rage against this lefty woke moron.
Completely inappropriate, flagrantly divisive and downright disrespectful. Surely her position is untenable?
It appears she is in the wrong job perhaps a junior reporter with the Guardian cheers Bluey
....yep looks like she's got an extra chromosome.
Get rid of the piece of garbage
What a crock of conservative crap! Great analogy!
Tim Wilson slowly traces in the dust 2+2=5
I should think so too
bet she hates the constitution too ...
The giveaway...'she/her'...an utterly tone deaf tweet from annaliesevd, who should be thinking about the COVID-19 crisis rather than virtue signalling. Her judgement is now in question.
The hard right will be livid 😂
SkyNewsAust newscomauHQ TomElliott3AW 7NewsMelbourne 9NewsMelb auspol at a time when Australians need to come together we have no less the Victorian deputy chief medical officer attempting to divide the nation & rewrite history. The CMO office reputation is now tainted.
But she has no problem being paid by the tax payers of the country that Cook discovered. Hypocrisy at it’s best.
Not just resigned. If she didn't like the arrival of the first fleet and captain Cook, there are plenty of countries she can go to . Just go. annaliesevd
Disrespectful to my Culture, so much. An Apology and resignation is in order as this is a direct attack on the Culture that makes me so proud. Disgusting.
Good. She must go. What a disgrace.
She isn’t still there is she?
Shock and horror. Another day and another petty opposition whinge. One day we’ll have to develop policies - yikes!!🙈 georgiecrozier danandrews
Who is calling for her resignation?Wouldn't be those whitefellas liebrals of whom there are about 3 in Victorian parliment.
All she has do is provide proof Cook's arrival caused 228,000 deaths and 3,000,000 infections in just 18 weeks or resign!
Annaliese van Diemen you are very immature and have a lot of growing up to do. A word of advice in future ensure brain is engaged before putting mouth into gear....
What a loser , yoyo
Gud on yer!
Keep living in denial 'White and not so White' Australia. One day your grandchildren will be ashamed of you when they remake ' WHO do you think you come from.? 'Too late.
What, she's right thought. Captain Cook was a piece of shit, glad the Hawaiins did him in
Historically her comments are accurate. Tim wilson bullying her through name calling. He is deflecting away from his & the LNP's questionable, corrupt activities. Morrison AWOL during the bushfires, Gladys Lui, George Christenson, etc The corruption starts at the top.
The Pearl clutching of conservatives when faced with the reality that colonialist are in fact the bad guys of history.
Remember, it's only cancel culture when the left do it.
Apparently, smallpox decimated indigenous population soon after arrival. Army soldiers with firing sticks would have been terrifying.
Settle down its not like she ran a slush fund to liberal seats with tax payers money, besides I think the original custodians of Australia would be inclined to agree with her.
Seems like a fair comment to me!
Maybe she should find another country to move to! Enjoys a privileged life in Australia but then undermines us! She doesn't deserve the position of power she holds!
Not the time to use your position to ram a political view down the throat of the people.
Just what Australia needs, more leftie feminist virtue signalling women in positions of power! This is what affirmative action gets you! CaptainCook virtuesignalling Melbourne COVID19Aus
Dense
Totally accurate.
He brought disease and death. And absolutely destroyed the local ecomony. Sound familiar?
Each to their own , could be just another conspiracy theory
Cook wasn't a snowflake he could wear this!
You can think it, even say it to your colleagues. WTF was she thinking putting it on social media.
Totally inappropriate, should stick to what she knows
She didn’t mention electricity, running water, sanitation or modern medicine that increased the life expectancy of the aborigines. She is a doctor, right?
Where do I sign the
How is she wrong tho?
I don't get it. If all you Aussies are so enraged about European settlement (aka invasion) in Australia, why are you still here? If it was wrong for Capt Cook to come, why are you still here?
It has some merit as an analogy, although it’s incubation was 20 years, until the First Fleet arrived...
What a complete twit.
She's a lefty frootloop.
I think the LiberalVictoria maybe would have preferred she tweeted that gays were going to hell? That's more their style.
Right wing petals calling for it, of course. They can just go and get fucked.
Have any public servants taken pay cuts during this crisis like most in private industry 💧💧💧
Leave her alone. She is worth more than a bus load of bullshit politicians. And who is to say she is wrong? Most indigenous, I suspect, would agree.
😂 good on her. In Cooks day foreigners almost always brought new diseases to new lands.
Same woman who supports the Chinese government who's people live under a totalitarian regime, who have no rights, no freedom of speech, no vote, no animal welfare laws and a million muslim people in prison, sounds like the ABCTV and a VictorianLabor employee
turnbull1949 As if the Lib opposition cares anything for the indigenous people. Another pointer to the ABC being slowly taken over by the Murdochracy
And this is the future of Australian politics? You voted her in Victoria?
I don’t understand what the issue is. In both situations people didn’t have immunity
An intelligent woman articulating a perspective on current issues in a reasonable way.
Hawaiians still celebrate every 14 February as Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻomake iā Kapena Kuke, or Happy Death of Captain Cook day. Maybe we should join in the celebrations.
Vic opposition just looking for any tiny reason to explode & be noticed..by anyone. If a Health Officer has personal opinions that do not influence professional performance, what's the issue? Viruses were brought to these shores from elsewhere long before James Cook was born.
I would now suggest that Victoria's Opposition could be compared to another form of virus. In the midst of a National health crisis that is killing Australians by the score, this is what fires up Victorian Liberals, please give me a break.
So who's scrolling comments for the triggered RWNJs?
With Victorian politics being what they are - she will be offered a safe seat in the western suburbs to stand for at the next election or that other piece of effluent AdamBandt will get her for the greens
The book Guns, germs and steel has in my opinion the most impartial non political view of history related to this hot topic.
Cook killed more Australians.
I would have thought her comparison should have been aimed at Arthur Phillip as he brought white settlers here. Cook found the east coast of a continent that the Dutch had found the west coast long before.
Not surprising from Victoriastan.
Deputy Chief Health Officer should have know better. Where do these people come from? How can you even think like that?
Sounded like an excellent analogy from the residents of the time. Liberals not worth listening to.
Yeah its not like she's got curly red hair and once owned a chippy in QLD is it?! Then she could compare a race's history to dog shit & gain support right?
Karen is clearly wrong... but I disagree Karen should be forced to resign over an opinion on a historical figure. It's a free country.
The absolute ingratitude - the absurdity of people deriding the actions of those that gave them their lives
How about the ABC pursues fed and NSW state govts for inflicting the Ruby Princess on us all, and the deaths that came with it?
May be taking the eye off the ball
There is no place for comments like this from a public servant. Totally inappropriate.
This article claims there is an opposition party in Victoria. This is fake news.
Read the tweet.Then write the correct article.
Do not resign for that!!! ScottyFomMarketing et al have done a lot worse!? Cook re-enactment of circumnavigation of Australia! Ha Ha Ha!!! But MSM will now examine your whole life. Be prepared!
Just because she has a different view of history to them!
Some people are sick, very sick.
Some would share her perspective.
Conservatives are so easily triggered.
Where are the free speech turds?
I think she's making a good point that we should be thinking about. Sure Cook arriving here was good for some but he did also bring death, suffering and decimation of culture on a large scale for others.
Well the regressive right wing Victorian Liberals would say that, wouldn’t they! Denialists …
Maybe but it wasn’t Cook who brought this disease here, it was China.
Depends whose perspective....I agree but virus more ethical....hopefully pain will only last a year or so...not over 200 years
Oh is China going to launch a space shuttle called Wuhan to mark their achievement?
Who are these people...?
She should definitely NOT resign! Acknowledgement of the truth -regardless of timing, should always be recognised as appropriate and just!
Move her on. Not interested in her protestations which are totally irrelevant given she’s a public servant. Sick of these left wing bleeding hearts clogging up the public service system. She how she performs in the private sector. Probably unemployable.
Considering how many indigenous they slaughtered with imported disease, the comparison fits
Still a big supporter of Victoria’s current strategy and yet that’s not defensible on any level at the moment for a person in that position. Forget the govt, forget the politics, forget the opposition.
Captain cook was Chinese?
Ask the Aboriginal people...
Why doesn’t the ABC report on some of the shocking comments by Mark Latham about Indigenous people? This is a media beat up of the Alan Jones kind.
Medical advice with a pinch of ideology, gotta be Victoria.
totally agree with her comments, Cook did invade, he wasn't invited, neither was Covid19
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Her lose in the medical profession, because idiots can’t handle her freedom to even speak, is Australia’s lose! She’s not a conspiracy of medicine, but it seems like Australia is definitely racist if she is sacked! GregHuntMP ScottMorrisonMP
Meanwhile the Federal CMO spread s lies about Tasmanian Coronavirus spike and nothing but crickets. 🤷♂️
She's a nut.
Good on her! Absolutely appropriate comment.
I mean we are on stolen land so this reaction seems massively dramatic
If this numpty annaliesevd progressive had half a brain and any integrity she would have packed her bags already. Where is comrade DanielAndrewsMP?! michaelobrienmp ODonohueMLC theheraldsun
A one sided article that ignores the truth of the topic completely - worthy of Sky News, ABC.
Who is calling for it ? Who ? The rwnj’s ? She’s entitled to her opinion , I’m angry at the whole lnp atm so maybe you could make that into a story ?
Stupid, ignorant tweet, but not a sackable offence.
From Victoria....
Inner city soy latte drinking public servant - there’s a shock.
Victorian Opposition? Say no more. They're pathetic.
Im still looking for an article on Planet ofthe Humans on ABC. They must have been too busy chasing Pell
Why is this a story?
Lets face it, she has made a good point. All the disease, death, destruction and appropriation of land, pretty much decimated the first nations population. I don't understand why people want to view Australian history through one lens only and only a fraction of its timeline.
I don’t see the problem here. She is absolutely right.
A simple apology should suffice.
Chill out guys. Hardly a firing offence especially considering annaliesevd quiz question was spot on
Radical leftards belong in protest lines and in centrelink offices, not in senior government positions.
Seems like a reasonable comparison when you consider the thousands of aboriginals that died as a result of colonisation following Cook. He was patient zero.
My my. The lefties definitely rule in Victoria.
We have a bunch of corrupted inepts running the country and we cringe at one comment?
The lady should go Cook was studies hard work man
She deserves a promotion
Lefties are the worst. And their ideology is rotten. But having said that the point she was trying to make was valid. And certainly not worthy of resignation.
Watch this space. Dutton gets away with allowing the Ruby Princess and Angus Taylor is a thief and liar. Scotty pushes the sports rorts for re-election. And this will fill the news cycle
annaliesevd VictorianCHO ScottMorrisonMP auspol Vic deputy chief medical officer's position is now untenable must resign. Poor judgement from a public paid official whose role is the health of Victorians not ramming her political idealogy down our throats. Resign or be sacked
Can we promote her as a reward for insight, truthfulness, and clear leadership?
We stan a truth telling queen.
There’s certain amount of truth to it. Explorers and missionaries certain introduced many viruses and diseases to indigenous people around the world.
Seriously who cares?
She needs to go. This is what makes me sick. Some immigrate here and either they, or their Australian born kids tell Australia and its history to fuck off. They want to change this, they want to change that. You can’t do this, and you can’t do that. Can’t celebrate this or that
Comrade.
Using a public health crisis to take a shot at colonialism is pretty tone deaf, especially from someone on the public payroll.
She needs to stay! Her value at triggering the do-nothing snowflakes of the right wing is extraordinary. I’ll nominate her for Australian of the Year for her efforts in exposing the cry babies of the right!
What a loser
No historian would say this... Tasmania was once called van Diemens land. It was renamed Tasmania after Abel Tasman but may not have been if Cook had arrived first. So, understandably she's angry at Cook because now no-one remembers her. As I said, no historian would say it.
Sack the cow
Chinese appeasement is more dangerous than COVID-19, sadly the ABC has chosen to go red, 😥.
Wow ... calls to resign eh ? Maybe the Libs can look in their own fkn houses, the fkn drama queens.
What don’t sack her.... give her a pay rise!!
Good on her. Hope the IPA and shock jocks explode.
What a horrible thing to say. She should go.
You've got to love Victorian politics. If this is all they have to focus on then everything must be rosy.
There are some stupid people about
She is right. Although world has evolved into what it's now; so many cultures have decimated in the process. It's unethical to believe that other cultures want your ideas of development and they are inherently lacking something.
She has outraged the Oppisition! Come on it's their job to be outraged no one else cares.
There are plenty of other countries we can export van Diemen too, eg) Ardernland. Australia should not be a residency option for her any longer.
I’m sure this is how the politics played out. However, perhaps the could give some attention to the veracity of Dr annaliesevd claims.
sorry but I don't see what the Doctor has said that is wrong. auspol invasion
Victorian opposition can wait until they win an election. Meanwhile, talk to the hand.
I mean. She’s not wrong. 🤷🏻♂️
She's just jealous the other van Diemen didn't get as much credit for his Australian exploits.
Sack her. quack
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