Premier DanielAndrewsMP says he has not raised the issue of lifting border restrictions with South Australia or New South Wales because he knows the answer to the question.
Premier Daniel Andrews says he has not raised the issue of lifting border restrictions with South Australia or New South Wales because he knows the answer to the question. “I have not had that conversation because I know what the answer would be,” he said.
When probed about whether border restrictions with NSW and regional Victoria should be eased, the premier said it was essential that the state-wide caseload be reduced first. “The time will come when those border restrictions can be eased and, indeed, lifted. "That will be great thing for border towns and a great thing for the whole of our state,” Mr Andrews said.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
COVIDSafe school camps to resume in regional Victoria | Sky News AustraliaVictorian Deputy Premier James Merlino has announced school camps in regional Victoria will resume during term four.\n\n“This is a significant step forward for regional Victoria, but it also gives families and schools in Melbourne hope about what the future could look like,” he said.\n\nThe Deputy Premier said there were 190 school camps across the state creating approximately $134 million in regional communities.\n\n“This is not only significant for the kids and the schools but also for many, many people working in regional communities,” he said. \n\nSchool camps will be conducted in a COVIDSafe manner with regular and enhanced cleaning procedures and only one school allowed at camp locations at a time. \n\nImage: Getty
Read more »
In Victoria, 'nothing serious is going to change' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says by the Victorian government’s own roadmap, Victoria’s “still got a very, very long way to go.”\n\nVictoria saw a significant drop in new COVID-19 case numbers as 14 new cases were recorded on Sunday. \n\n“Things are getting better, cases are starting to drop,” Mr Murray said. \n\n“But, I hate to break it to you, and I’m sorry to break your heart if you’re in Victoria, \n\n“Even if the 14-day average is somewhere between 30 and 50, which it is going to be, nothing is really going to change for you.\n\n“All that’s going to happen, and all they might announce should this be the case…. the curfew will still be there, most people still have to stay at home and only have four reasons you’re able to leave.\n\n“Nothing serious is going to change.\n\n“Most likely, you do it for another month, and then fingers crossed you get to five cases.\n\n“By their own roadmap, you’ve still got a very, very long way to go.”\n\n“And many more heartbreak hills between now and when things get truly better, when you don’t need a permission slip to walk 5.1 kilometres.”\n
Read more »
Concerns mount over Victoria's face mask shortage | Sky News AustraliaVictorian health care workers are being forced to ration their health care equipment as face mask supplies drop to alarmingly low levels. \n\nThroughout the state’s fight with the coronavirus pandemic, many frontline workers reported being unable to access necessary PPE. \n\nThe shortage prompted the Andrews government to encourage local manufactures to modify machinery in an effort to keep up with demand. \n\nNearly 3500 health care workers across the state contracted the virus. \n
Read more »
Victoria’s new ‘Stalinist’ legislation goes against all civil liberties | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Rowan Dean says the Victorian government’s new “Stalinist” bill will give the same people who ruined hotel quarantine sweeping and unprecedented policing powers.\n\nThe Andrews government is expected to introduce the COVID-19 Omnibus Measures Amendment Bill which endows particular public servants with the powers of an ‘authorised officer’ to enforce public health interventions.\n\nThe bill – which will last until April 2021 – gives officers the power to detain people whom they perceive to be a high risk person (either with COVID-19 or a close contact) and who refuses to comply with health directives.\n\nMr Dean said the “mind boggles” at these new sweeping authoritarian powers, especially given that the bill entitles the same public servants who failed with hotel quarantine “the powers to run around arresting people”.\n\n“This is what happens when you have Lefty lunatics running your government and riddled throughout your bureaucracy; this is what you get, disaster after disaster”.\n\nSky News host James Morrow said it was by no means an exaggeration to label the new bill as an “absolutely Stalinist piece of legislation”.\n\n“It’s shocking that in the wokest, most Left leaning state in Australia, you would have this sort of legislation which goes against all civil liberties, against all due process,” he said.\n
Read more »
Push for borders to be re-opened by Christmas | Sky News AustraliaDespite widespread support for the status quo, new polling has indicated Queenslanders and South Australians want their borders to be open by Christmas, according to Sky News host Andrew Clennell.\n \n“Here is some Newgate polling I'm aware the Prime Minister's office is aware of which shows that in Queensland 55 per cent of citizens want the borders open before Christmas, 51 per cent of South Australians want it open by that date,” according to Mr Clennell.\n \n“According to the data, sixty-three per cent nationally want the borders opened by then - up five points from last week.”\n \nMr Clennell said the polling also shows the public is supportive for the strict border control to be relaxed in the case of medical and exemptions, like in the case of Sarah Caisip.\n \nMs Caisip, who lives in Canberra, recently flew home to Queensland in a bid to visit her dying father. \n \nShe was placed in hotel quarantine, despite the ACT not recording community transmission of COVID-19 for more than two months. \n \nOn Thursday Ms Caisip was refused an exemption from quarantine to attend her father's funeral, a move that was widely criticised.\n
Read more »
Washington Post labels Daniel Andrews Australia’s ‘COVID dictator’ | Sky News AustraliaThe Washington Post has joined the litany of people and organisations asking why Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is still popular, even jumping on and labelling the embattled state leader a dictator, says Sky News host James Morrow.\n\n“Now one of the wokest papers in the world, they wonder the same question that everyone around the world is wondering; why is he still popular,” Mr Morrow said.\n\nAn article in the Washington Post posed the question why Mr Andrews is still popular even after draconian lockdowns.\n\n“Australia’s coronavirus ‘dictator’ enforces a drastic lockdown. He’s still popular,” the article was headed.\n\nIt comes as the Andrews government is expected to introduce sweeping new powers for public servants giving them the authority if authorised officers with the ability to indefinitely detain Victorians.\n\n“If you want to call somebody a dictator, somebody who empowers their bureaucrats to put you in jail indefinitely, I think that fills the definition of dictator,” Mr Morrow said.
Read more »