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In regard to returned travellers, I think we are potentially barking at the wrong issue. The real issue is what happens to those travellers when they return. If they were able to be quarantined in appropriate facilities, then the issue of whether they should be allowed to return wouldn't even be...

The following is an excerpt from an ABC report at the time that Dan Andrews flagged reducing international arrivals in June: *Meanwhile, Mr Andrews said he would argue at tomorrow's meeting of National Cabinet for a temporary cut to the number of people being allowed into the country and...

Just historic I think. In the industry in which I worked, most companies had their head offices in Sydney, but revenues were generated across all states broadly in line with the economic footprint of those states. I don't think you have a strong here, mate

Vic scaled back their numbers in June 2021. There is a quote somewhere from Dan Andrews as to why. I'll see if I can find it

Do you think that this might be because most companies have their head office in Sydney? (I.e. regardless of where in Australia the income is generated, it is accounted for in Sydney). If Sydney was genuinely responsible for 80% of Australia's financial income then that would exclude all...

I agree with most of what you say there, although I think that you are letting Gladys off a bit too easy. I think that the light lockdown had a lot to do with conservative ideology. But we could go backwards and forwards from now to eternity without getting any closer on that subject. When I...

Sorry mate, I didn't understand, but I think I've got it now. If we criticise Gladys for failing to act quickly enough and allowing Covid 19 to spread uncontrolled, or if we criticise Scotty for failing to build appropriate quarantine facilities or for the tardy rollout of the vaccines, that's...

I'm a little bit surprised by this comment Earl. I seem to recall in some of your earlier posts that you were insisting that people should not politicise this issue. I think you should take your own advice.

They made scrum penalties "differential" because referees could determine the outcome in the dying minutes of a game with an obscure penalty. We couldn't have that. Then they totally destroyed the scrum by deciding that you could feed the ball in behind the second row's feet (and the players...

Wasn't there a change in interpretation of the rule. I remember that if a player found himself caught in that position, the dummy half would often just toss the ball in to them and get a penalty. Robbie Farah used to do that quite often. Then the NRL said that they weren't going to penalise if...

I feel as though there is actually less enforcement down here, although the rhetoric in that area has been ramped up a little since last weekend. The main difference, I think, is that we have a standard set of rules as well as standard definitions around things like essential workers. So when a...

Not great, but 44 of those were fully in quarantine, many of them close contacts of previous positives who, in turn, tested positive in their day 13 test. So not entirely unexpected. The biggest concern is the number of "mystery" cases in the St Kilda area. A St Kilda sex worker recently tested...

Well said. To misquote the Irish: God created the virus (ok some say the Chinese). Gladys created the crisis.

You are absolutely entitled to hold off until such time as you feel comfortable with the vaccines on offer. That may be never. That's still your right. But there are always consequences to the decisions that we make. If the majority of society feels that your unvaccinated condition places it in...

Perhaps my use of the word "discrimination" was a poor one. Insurance companies have always made a choice about what they will and won't insure. It's their prerogative to decide what risks they are willing to take. But insisting that someone gets a particular injection before they will do...

I don't think there is any chance at all that travel insurance policies will cover covid 19 (vaccinated or unvaccinated). Pandemic is generally an exclusion in those types of policies. They might also exclude complications in other illnesses arising from covid 19 in those who are unvaccinated...

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Yeah I've got my digital certificate too. I agree that the process of checking those certificates is not onerous. Not if customers are obligingly helpful. But there was a segment on ABC News tonight about Melbourne people slipping out to the regions for the weekends. When challenged by...

It's really hard to know isn't it? On the one hand, I can't imagine that restaurants, pubs etc are going to be too happy if they're asked to vet vaccination certificates. On the other hand, being named as a tier 1 transmission site wouldn't be a whole barrel of laughs either. So maybe they...

Ok. I could be wrong. There is some info in this article but it seems a bit vague https://www.dw.com/en/what-are-the-covid-entry-rules-for-travelers-to-european-countries/a-58017284 In any event use of a digital passport system doesn't seem to be uniform in the EU (I thought it was)