The Sydney suburbs where the most children received COVID-19 fines | michaelkoziol
The top eight suburbs where minors were fined for breaching COVID rules were in western Sydney.
A senior solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre said it was “distorted” to say children in western Sydney were fined more just because they were subject to stricter rules and flouted them. Police patrol outside a vaccination centre on a Bankstown shopping strip during the Delta lockdown in August 2021.Those western Sydney suburbs were mostly located in “areas of concern” where the government applied more severe restrictions, including curfews and banning people leaving the area for work unless they were an approved worker.
The data was released by NSW Police to Redfern Legal Centre under freedom of information laws, and covered the period from the start of the pandemic in 2020 until June 4, 2022. The vast majority of fines were issued during last year’s long Delta lockdown. The suburb of Penrith, where 84 minors were fined, was never listed as an area of concern - even though nearby suburbs such as St Marys, where 70 minors were fined, was on the list. In Burwood, which was located in an LGA of concern, just one child was fined; in Strathfield, 32.
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