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watt price tully 
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
nah, it's the smart ones leaving. |
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😂😂 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Gotta love Dan and the team. Spend $5M running an inquiry into their own actions which was as transparent and open as a concrete wall and $7M in legal fees defending themselves against it. 
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Pies4shaw 
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| Cheap at twice the price. And not a single one of those lawyers will have had to be paid Jobkeeper, so it's a little leg-up for Josh, too. Well done to all concerned. |
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pietillidie
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Well done, all. You're among the few sane and disciplined Western nations. Relatively minimal moaning and hysteria, too.
| Quote: | SYDNEY, Australia — One case. One young security guard at a quarantine hotel who tested positive for the coronavirus and experienced minor symptoms.
That was all it took for Perth, Australia’s fourth-largest city, to snap into a complete lockdown on Sunday. One case and now two million people are staying home for at least the next five days. One case and now the top state leader, Mark McGowan, who is facing an election next month, is calling on his constituents to sacrifice for each other and the nation.
“This is a very serious situation,” he said on Sunday as he reported the case, the first one the state of Western Australia had found outside quarantine in almost 10 months. “Each and every one of us has to do everything we personally can to stop the spread in the community.”
The speed and severity of the response may be unthinkable to people in the United States or Europe, where far larger outbreaks have often been met with half measures. But to Australians, it looked familiar.
The lockdown in Perth and the surrounding area followed similar efforts in Brisbane and Sydney, where a handful of infections led to steep ramp-ups in restrictions, a subdued virus and a rapid return to near normalcy. Ask Australians about the approach, and they might just shrug. Instead of loneliness and grief or outcries over impingements on their freedom, they’ve gotten used to a routine of short-term pain for collective gain.
The contrast with the United States and Europe — sharp at the start of the pandemic — has become even more marked with time. Fewer Australians have died in total (909) than the average number of deaths every day now in Britain and the United States.
“We have a way to save lives, open up our economies and avoid all this fear and hassle,” said Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland who developed a multilayered, or “Swiss cheese,” model of pandemic defense that has been widely circulated. “Everyone can learn from us, but not all are willing to learn.”
Australia is just one of several success stories in the Asia-Pacific. The region’s middle powers, including New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, are essentially getting better at managing the virus while the great powers of the World War II era are getting worse"
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/world/australia/perth-lockdown.html
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Tannin 
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Meanwhile, Peter Dutton, who is has the legal responsibility to administer Australian immigration and quarantine, has tried to pay out on one of the state premiers - the people who are actually doing Dutton's job for him!
Screw Peter Dutton. What a useless tool he is.
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Pies4shaw
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watt price tully
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| Tannin wrote: | Meanwhile, Peter Dutton, who is has the legal responsibility to administer Australian immigration and quarantine, has tried to pay out on one of the state premiers - the people who are actually doing Dutton's job for him!
Screw Peter Dutton. What a useless tool he is. |
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QI_r15YRoo
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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eddiesmith 
Lets get ready to Rumble
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Here we go again, talks of late night press conferences ain’t going to be good news.
However I see even the ABC spin doctor is questioning the overreaction to the UK variant given everyone keeps panicking and so far none of them have passed it on to anyone else... |
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watt price tully
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I hope more leave Melbourne. The upside of Coronavirus restrictions was so little traffic. Riding my bike to work today at 07:45 showed soooo much traffic. Gotta say the flashing front headlight on my helmet means I can be seen when cars want to pull out or turn.
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Pies4shaw
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From the ABC blog:
| Quote: | Victoria has reintroduced mandatory mask rules, reduced the number of people allowed in homes and paused an increase on the number of people allowed in offices after a hotel quarantine worker contracted COVID-19.
From 11:59pm on Wednesday, private gatherings will be limited to 15 people and masks will become mandatory in indoor settings.
A plan to have up to 75 per cent of workers back in the office from Monday has been paused.
It follows the diagnosis of a 26-year-old hotel quarantine worker, who had been serving as a resident support officer as part of the Australian Open quarantine program. |
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think positive 
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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$$%^%%$ tennis
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010
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| eddiesmith wrote: | Here we go again, talks of late night press conferences ain’t going to be good news.
However I see even the ABC spin doctor is questioning the overreaction to the UK variant given everyone keeps panicking and so far none of them have passed it on to anyone else... |
How are the Nick's spin doctors going to somehow blame the Liberals for this one. |
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Tannin
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| think positive wrote: | ****
$�$%^%%$ tennis |
Yep, $�$%^%%$ tennis
Arrogant refuse-to-quarantine-properly bastards.
Just deport them. Papers stamped "Not wanted back".
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Pies4shaw
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| I don't know why tennis isn't just generally unlawful. |
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