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4 Jul, 12 tweets, 8 min read
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 9 .....
Not sure what is happening at the ABC today
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

All of the Gladystan awaits 11am.....

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Not sure what is happening at the ABC these last few days but just because 2020 Melbourne adopted Pyongyang measures has no bearing on what Sydney may or may not do to manage this esp as NSW's contact tracing works well.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Sydney is a city of tribes/strata and on weekends, few people leave their 'homelands'. The Bondi cluster people may head to the Snow for winter but very unlikely they cross the Bridge let alone go west...North Shore & inner west are alternative worlds
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Gladys says numbers going the right way - only 16(!) new cases (13 in isolation). Get tested etc. Play the game.
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Dr Kerry Chant on now .... leader of the gold standard of public health that is @NSWHealth

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Brad Hazzard is up now warning us that our home - "our castle" - can be "Covid Central". We will never have another Health Minister who is remotely this amusing albeit I suspect unintentionally. Dying.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
I do not care about Bondi socialising - a lot of people there are young foreigners stranded here on visas. Media will not be happy until young Sth Americans on the eastern beaches are being taken away by Police like in some third world favela.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Media asking the big questions about cracking down on florists and car wash ..... Good on Gladys pushing back here. Go live in Melbourne if you want to live in Pyongyang. This is Sydney, the nation's engine room for 2020-2021.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
The thoroughness of @NSWHealth in terms of contact tracing and even monitoring sewage is what makes them the gold standard for public health in this pandemic. Dr Chant schooling a baying media horde here.
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A very well done to @BradHazzard - on any view the greatest State Health Minister since Augustus - who went over to the Auslan sign interpreter and thanked her for her stalwart work. Hard to overstate how important our sign language translators are
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Our trade unions boss against businesses being open and employees thus being in jobs .... it is like the Melbourne ABC staff cafeteria is a vector of its own dangerous pathogen
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6 Jul
Amid all the fury unleashing online re St Josephs: the school does have Indigenous & rural students & if vaccinating the whole of Year 12 ("one in, all in") cured any vaccine hesitancy, then good. Any fury should be for NSW Health which "owns" Pfizer doses
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Would have thought - esp given #NAIDOC2021 - that one of Australia's better known private schools. going, in the best Marist pastoral tradition, to NSW Health for Covid jabs to protect their Indigenous students & these students' communities, would be an example worth praising
Sadly, social media, esp Australian political twitter, is dominated by the loudest, most broken, voices, nursing grievances from, inter alia, high school & university, and unable to attribute good faith to any activity.
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5 Jul
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 11 ....

Watching the very good @ljayes on Sky & seeing the GPs try & get in on new Pfizer jabs. If you can get a Flu jab at your a pharmacy, why not for Covid? Doctors run patients late & usually mean detours from work

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Where was this sense of urgency in January? When Professor Murphy & the rest of the Canberra 'head shed' was assuring us that 'all was in hand' and the media were going along with it

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Like everyone in greater Sydney, waiting for the daily Gladystan Covid briefing and, more importantly, today's episode of the war metaphors of Brad "Chad" Hazzard .... yesterday was "The Hunger Games", today will be....?

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5 Jul
Generally not one to defend the Hanoverians but King George III dealt with the American rebellion as any comparable monarch would have, in fact, somewhat more gently. His Parliament had too many irresolute ponces, for example, his Prime Minister, Lord North, and Edmund Burke.
It was not just the French and then the Spanish aiding the American rebellion - even the Dutch tried to plunge the dirk into the British Lion....for their grave sins in aiding rebellion against the British Crown, Napoleon occupied and plundered these countries
The Habsburg Austrians never recognised the American rebellion, nor did the Russians (clearly both with a view to not giving support to bad ideas cf the French). Ironically the Russian Tsar, who admired President Lincoln, would be the Union's only real ally in the Civil War.
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5 Jul
Noting this foolishness going around - each of the States has a broad “police power” to make laws in order to “…safeguard the health, morals and safety of its inhabitants.”: R v Smithers (1912) 16 CLR 99 at 106-108 per Griffith CJ, at 110 per Barton J, at 111 per Isaacs J.
There is an old saying that free legal advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Some of the takes on the Commonwealth, the States, and Quarantine, have verged on the insane. And that is from people professing to be practising lawyers.
If you reside in NSW, you are subject to NSW's public health orders. No court is going to sanction you endangering public health during a pandemic. If you wish to change a law or regulation or order, then speak to your local Member of Parliament. That is how the system works.
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4 Jul
As the American Republic celebrates its 4th of July, I am thinking, as I always do at this time, of LtCol John Connolly of Pennsylvania and Ensign James Connolly, Tory Loyalists, who fought for the Crown & against seditious rebels.
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TBC: the (overwhelmingly Protestant) American rebellion was made possible only because of the enormous military support of the (Catholic) French & Spanish Kingdoms. Otherwise the American founders would have been hanged as seditionists against & traitors to their (Anglican) King.
The Papacy was pro-Habsburg & pro-Hanoverian....it was always anti-French. So, during the American Revolt, the Papacy was neutral but not unhappy with a British North America that protected Catholic missions. The British Crown needed to raise armies from the (RC) Scots & Irish
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4 Jul
Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 10 ....

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown
Watching @ljayes on Sky and, even as someone compelled to follow federal politics, I forget that Kristina Keneally is the Shadow home affairs person. Politics is simply one fail upwards after another.

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Somehow the federal ALP dumped Ed Husic from its shadow ministry for Kristina Keneally because a Muslim guy from western Sydney lost out in the Left's identity politics calculus to one of the worst NSW premiers....ever
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