Thread by @GrayConnolly

Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 13 .... Good morning to all on this sunny but cold, lockdown-ish, Sydney day. The Sydney CBD is dead - it may not be Melbourne dead, but, for Sydney, this is dead.

#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Sydney is full of people from somewhere else - media now pointing accusing fingers at ethnic communities for not being North Sydney, or young foreign people stranded here on visas, is one of many things to hate about this era.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

In the now existential battle between our lilywhite Covid paranoids (reflected in the media) vs Sydney's family-oriented, multi-generational ethnic communities (who the media attack), not hard to work out who to sympathise with.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

Good questioning by @ljayes of Simon Birmingham on the Vaccines issue. The spin Birmingham offers does not explain why the Commonwealth failed to order sufficient Pfizer jabs unlike, for example, Israel.
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

If the media had its job in January and pressed Government on the Vaccine rollout - when it was already off track - then we would be vaccinated and these racist dog whistles at Sydney’s family-oriented ethnic communities would not be needed 👇
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown

https://twitter.com/LucyCormack/status/1412942107262685185

Gladys as a Premier (let alone an Armenian Australian) should be embarrassed at this racist dog whistling. If Govt had done its job over summer we would have people vaccinated. She would esp know why ethnic NESB parents rely on their children esp now
#COVID19nsw #Sydneylockdown