Thread by @GrayConnolly

Welcome to Sydney lockdown day 16 ....

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This is all great etc but with shutdowns of bars and restaurants, there is a huge casual workforce that lives job to job for rent etc. They will need rent & eviction moratoria as well. These vulnerable have no union or lobby group. Sydney is in a coma.

https://twitter.com/ljayes/status/1413987128287981571

This site in a few days will be media losing it online as to why large groups of young (esp foreigners stranded here on visas) will slyly congregate in Bondi & Manly when they have no money, no sources of support & everything in Sydney is shut down.

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Whenever there is a lockdown, MPs and Senators (and State parliamentary equivalents) should have their pay & entitlements stopped for its duration. Need more of the 'all together' in the 'We are all in this together'. To govern is to choose.

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Sydney has always been an immigrant city - not everyone here speaks perfect English nor has yet put deep roots into their community. Government and its policies has to be attentive to this reality. It is hard enough for many new arrivals as it is.
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Gladystan briefing ..... 77 new cases.

Brad "Chad" Hazzard silently awaiting his chance ....

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Gladys says expecting over 100 cases tomorrow

Imagine if we had the vaccines rolled out ..... if the media & politicians had been doing their job in hammering Canberra on Vaccine acquisitions in January

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1345920720736436226

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Yes, people in migrant communities in S-W Sydney congregate together. This is a normal human impulse for non-broken people. And if the Govt had done its job on Vaccines acquisition & their rollout, then none of this would be controversial.

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Surpised to see Sydney is now so thoroughly acclimated to this lockdown that we are now Comrade Andrews' Melbourne with Police talking about how people have been dobbing in their neighbours .... Suspect that Gladys would have been a dobber at school

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Any journalist asking for the shut down of all places of work and businesses should be made to work for free for the rest of this lock down.

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No Brad Hazzard???

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It is a Sunday and even so, General Frewen is in rig/uniform and ready to brief the press comprehensively. This Doctor to his left looks like he was 'breaking bad' in a Meth lab last night - looks every bit as unserious as the vaccine rollout has been
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