Deputy CHO Allen Cheng mentioned in today press conference that we should see numbers start to decrease from next week and it should be lower.
Also, earlier this morning the Victorian Coroner has announced an investigation into the deaths from St Basil’s aged care facility.
Government needs the revenue to keep rolling in.
I’m not currently in Victoria and haven’t really listened to many of the pressers but someone today at work mentioned there would be a shortage in meat due to the stage 4 working impacts. Is this true?
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It’s not happening yet. The fear is that less people working in abbatoirs and meat processing plants, plus panic buying by shoppers, mean it will take longer to fill orders for supermarkets and butchers. Premier Daniel Andrews had again urged people not to hoard food.
I think abattoirs are required to reduce their production by 30% (info is out there). The most likely cause of any meat shortage will be either a further outbreak of covid 19 at an abattoir or continued panic buying and hoarding of meat by shoppers.
I don’t know how many times Andrews’ can repeat himself with these questions. Every journalist has basically asked the same question, just asked differently. They don’t even let him finish answering before they start again.
Andrews’ basically said again today, that the buck stops with him and that he’ll own the mistakes and errors. I don’t know how many times he’ll say it until people get it into their thick heads.
Time to move on and wait until the investigation into Hotel Quarantine to be completed.
The questions part of these press conferences are becoming unbearable. On “slow news days” i.e. what has become a standard 400something day of new cases, the reporters then like to jump on things like Hotel Quarantine to try and get a story or headline. I don’t know why that became such a grilling on the topic today. We all know there is an enquiry going on that will give answers. All I care about right now is getting on top of this situation. We can look back and play the blame game later.
It’s a merry go ahead. I wish the camera pans around to whoever is asking these idiotic questions to show their face.
Who are Alex and Rachael? These two are a disgrace.
Because of yesterday’s comment from the inquiry’s judge:
“There is no general restriction or prohibition which would prevent a person from commenting publicly or answering questions to which they know the answers on matters that are the subject of examination by this board of inquiry,” Ms Coate said.
Andrews has continually avoided questions: while delaying the inquiry is sensible given the increased restrictions, I don’t think it’s fair that Andrews (or anyone else in the government for that matter) gets a green light for another six weeks of dodging questions.
Regarding meat. It has been mention that the surplus meat supply that is exported from QLD abattoirs could be redirected to the domestic market if required - in the public interest.
Alex White and Rachel Baxendale. Both from News Corp.
That explains it all. Nothing else needs to be said
Which partly explains why this afternoon’s press conference went for nearly two hours, as Andrews answered every question posed about hotel quarantine.
That figures! What is wrong with these people? News Corp (Crap) newspapers and Sky News are an abomination! Let’s get through this before they do the finger pointing.
Not fair to whom? There is a bigger job to do than worrying about journalists crappy questions! IMO Daniel Andrews is doing a good job and needs support not this continual sniping from these nobodies. God (or whoever) help us all if we were in this with the Libs opposition in Government. They’re not even fit to be an opposition.
I too don’t want to debate this to much. But I don’t like the constant grilling of Dan Andrews. Journalists are wanting the public to adhere to restrictions and rules and undermining his authority right now is not helping. There is a time and a place for these questions and it isn’t right now.
It’s all an echo chamber, The Australian reporter drills these questions over and over, Sky News gets the Libs on this arvo to echo it, then we will hear about it on the news tonight cause it’s contentious. If you don’t think the news is curated to suit a business model or political POV of media organisations, you’re a fool.
Struggling to believe I’ve read the above posts on a media forum.
The role of the media is to hold public figures to account. That includes answering questions of a public interest at a media conference in a time of crisis. What would we be saying if Andrews read out the numbers, took a couple of softball questions then walked out the room. It’d be Trump-esque.
The time and place IS now. If X went wrong before, what’s to say Y won’t happen soon.
Andrews to his credit is answering them all - the fact he is fronting day after day is superhuman but he knows it’s part of the job.
As an aside, I have to say I’m never a fan of an entire Q+A being shown live, however circumstances obviously dictate this is the easiest way to disseminate official information to the wider public.
Media conferences aren’t meant to be consumed in their entirety by the public and I don’t meant that in a secret way, but they are such a restrictive environment that no one ever comes off looking their best (yelling over the top of each other, repeated questions etc) . Unfortunately in a live news cycle world and also a pandemic, that’s how they are being consumed.
Yet not the most effective, but that’s a responsibility that falls on the government’s various media teams.
Agree to disagree there. It’s fine to hold those accountable but wait until the inquest is completed and stop undermining the authority when the public is already looking at loopholes. As I said there is a time and a place. It doesn’t mean you completely ignore those issues.
Why are journalists not allowed to ask questions when it’s in the public interest to do so? This has to be the closest that Australian media has come to holding a government accountable in some time.