Why do you make everything about Sydney vs Melbourne?
It wasn’t necessary to call Sylvia a “Sydney talking head” unless you are trying to incite state rivalries
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Nsw kept their border closed to regional Vic for 5 weeks while they had almost zero cases. And the ring of steel was in place. (Just a handful of cases in one shepparton household.)
Why would there be any assumption that the Vic border would open to nsw while they are still recording cases, there is no ring of steel, few mitigation measures, and there has already been a leak over the border?
That Today clip is cringe, what are gus’s qualifications to be so confidently dismissive of health advise and giving his own? Using the Uk as a benchmark 
, What an idiot.
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NSW is the favourite child. We can’t bag the favourite child as we’ll get into trouble by Mum and Dad.
Victoria is doing exactly the same to NSW with what they did to Victoria by closing the border. However, it seems that Victoria is in the wrong but when NSW did it, nothing was said. If the outbreaks were reversed, NSW would not hesitate to do it again.
If Victoria’s outbreak was just as bad as NSW, the upcoming cricket test would’ve been taken away and relocated to another state. Again, we can’t upset the favourite child.
I agree, close the border if need be but the border shouldn’t have closed fully. Allow Victorian residents back but they must quarantine for 14 days regardless of the result.
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So no comment from you or your comment’s liker regarding the incorrect facts presented by that report?
I think you misunderstand, the report you posted is about Victoria’s border closure, I don’t think it is I who is making “everything” about a state versus state rivalry by commenting on the clip. Not to mention the clip (and this isn’t reflective of you) sets out to be provocative.
My reference to the “Sydney talking head” is the unfamiliar and unnamed person with Sydney under their head, not the presenter.
Apology welcome anytime.
This is the point. Regardless of border closures, you should be able to go to your place of residence, even if that means isolation or quarantine. This was the reason I posted the video to show that even members of Labor party agree on this, so it’s not a partisan issue that some may have thought it was.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe NSW locked out it’s own residents.
Ffs. NSW Deputy Premier on Sunrise saying they’re the “gold standard” and done the “heavy lifting”
… so why the reluctance with masks and mandatory testing of airline crews?? And why the continual outbreaks which may now have spread further through their state?
I think the “gold standard” commentary is often in reference to NSW Health and our contact tracing team. The later being a key reason NSW hasn’t had a substantial COVID wave and that most of the State is open and experiencing phenomenal growth despite a global pandemic.
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I don’t see any other states offering to share the load. I’d love to see how they could cope with the amount of incoming passengers from overseas going into quarantine.
It’s very clear to me the reason WA closes its border after 1 case in other states is because it knows it wouldn’t be able to handle an outbreak.
These premiers should be thanking NSW for taking the amount of people they do, minimising the risk to their state.
Now I don’t know about this gold standard talk but facts are facts. NSW takes way more international passengers than they should be.
Last year NSW and Victoria took the load. This year WA and Adelaide should. Spread the love.
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Surely we must be close to having all the genuinely stranded overseas people home? i recall months ago they said there were 30 something thousand people trying to get back and we were accepting 3000+ per week.
and by genuinely stranded i mean people that have been trying to get home since last April. The additional people that have left the country since can get stuffed unless they have a compelling compassionate reason. Anyone that accepted an overseas work contract since April knew the risks they were taking.
I think if NSW is not happy with the load of travelers they are taking they should just accept less and stop complaining.
I completely agree with this. They’re shutting the door to other states far too early.
The only other reason I can think of why they do this apart from inability to handle an outbreak is because of the huge mining industry, and if coronavirus was to get into the mines and cause a shutdown, that would cause economic havoc.
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And spread the disease. 
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Shouldn’t matter whether NSW take 1% or 100% of the overseas travellers. My point is that they should all be tested including flight crews. Why won’t they? They keep crowing about how great they are because of the numbers of tests they do in the community, why would it hurt to do some more each day?
And why the reluctance with masks? If they’re doing all the hard work, and taking all these extra risks for the sake of the nation, why not add masks as an extra precaution?
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I understand that everyone living in Berala, Auburn, Lidcombe and Regents Park was told to get tested.
Any idea of the latest breakdown? Last rough numbers I saw were NSW just under 3000/ week, Victoria 1,120 ( when flights resumed last month) WA about 1000. No idea about Queensland, but I’d have thought they have the hotels to support a decent intake.
Just spin from the PM, luckily so far it’s living up to that. May it continue.
I see these types of statements every day as if its a bad thing, that rationale is never used for anything else.
You could just as easily say “the reason Gladys did a mask mandate is because she has no faith in her systems”, “The reason the Northern Beaches are in lockdown is because the contact tracers weren’t up to the task otherwise”, “the reason we persevere with hotel quarantine is because the health departments are incompetent”
leaders should be using every precaution at their disposal even if unnecessary. The very realistic consequences of under reacting are much worse than the consequences of over reacting.
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It’s not quite the same. I never understand these comparisons. NSW relented on closing the border. Cases were out of control in Victoria when they did it and there were lots of unknown cases and clusters. Victoria was also sending the whole state into a lockdown. NSW was and is nowhere near that. So I don’t think we should compare the two situations.
This one new case in Victoria is a bit of a worry but hopefully they can link it. It’s just great this person got tested so soon. Credit to them.
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NSW closed the Victorian border before the strict lock down which was just metro Melbourne and Mitchell shire, not the whole state.
I think that’s overstating it by quite a bit. NSW was extremely hesitant to close the border at all. They only did it when Victoria recorded 127 daily cases that they instituted border controls.
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Taking into account state population WA is taking its fair share of hotel quarantine pax. NSW has over 3 times the population of WA and it’s taking in 3 times more passengers, which is fair.
QLD is taking the same as WA despite having twice the population and a significant percentage of that intake coming from very low risk jurisdictions (Pacific Islands) in comparison to other states.
I’m sure they would if they had more than just a few flights per week from overseas. All the other airlines that flew into Adelaide cancelled service immediately as COVID shutdowns began at the end of March. Same challenges with getting TAS, ACT, and NT to contribute unless they take in chartered repatriation flights organised by the federal govenrment.
This has been very clearly stated previously, it’s also why the state had internal regional borders during lockdown - while Perth and its metro area might be able to handle an outbreak, medical facilities in regional WA can’t, and while it hasn’t been stated on the record it’s pretty obvious that there’s influence from the big mining companies on this decision considering record iron ore prices (which are very much helping the economy federally mind you).
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