Nationals MP Barnaby_Joyce says Victorian Premier DanielAndrewsMP is crashing the economy by enforcing harsh lockdowns throughout the state.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says Victorian Premier Daniel Andrew’s is crashing the economy by enforcing harsh lockdowns throughout the state. Twenty five of Victoria’s councils have zero active cases, yet they abide by the same lockdown rules that exist in places like Melbourne.
“On the 1st of July 1851 from the headwaters of the Murray to Cape Howe, for some unknown reasons, a colonial person … created the state of Victoria, an arbitrary line determined by a river,” Mr Joyce told Sky News host Paul Murray. “And now that that person is using that arbitrary line to differentiate two areas which are epidemiologically the same, that is, they have no virus. “We should have stronger regional focus, and not state focus, because the state focus is an anachronism.
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