The Federal Government should cover everyone affected by lockdown.
Josh just completely neglected that he didn't provide support during the first week of our previous lockdown.
Forgetting also that @JamesMerlinoMP and @timpallas had to actually fight to get support for that 2nd week.
No one cares what you did last year Josh. You constantly used your previous support as a defence when asked why you didn't provide support for the last lockdown. Disgusting.
Yet, when Vic went into lockdown the other month, the Federal Government didn't have a support plan in place. Policy on the run. What a joke.
Such as fixing the vaccine rollout and sorting out national quarantine...
Hypocrite. If NSW wasn't in lockdown right now, there is no way you'd be saying this. You'd be attacking Victoria non-stop like you did last year!
So much hypocrisy from Josh Frydenberg in this article. He thinks one opinion piece will make us forget how he has treated us previously. We won't forget @JoshFrydenberg and we are coming for you at election time. #auspol#votejoshout
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This article from @jamesmassola is absolute nonsense.
Apparently, Morrison is cool because he plays Pool with his Junior ministers and Albo isn't cool... because... well... Murdoch and Costello said he isn't.
Almost the entire first half of this article (about @AlboMP) is actually about Scott Morrison and how great he is.
The bar for greatness is low though - all you have to do is play Pool, have the media on your side and refuse to act on rape allegations, vaccines and quarantine.
So what you're saying @jamesmassola is that The Liberal Party have had leadership issues? Massive ones. 3 different Prime Ministers via spills - yet the media has not criticised them for it, despite hounding Labor for this before Abbott was elected.
In this article, @rachelbaxendale uses photos obtained via unauthorised access to a fenced-off area so she can write a negative story on Hotel Quarantine.
I've spoken with a source from HQ to get the truth!
Technically this is true. However, the full truth is that the bins are stored in a fenced-off area of the car park that is owned by the hotel. They are not in a section of the car park that is shared with residents, the material is stored in a separated, fenced-off section.
The article looks at the strictness of lockdown measures across all countries via the Oxford COVID19 Government response tracker. Lockdown is measured via 9 ordinal scales with flags on those scales also. This is then calculated into a score out of 100.
The article correctly states that Australia reached a max total of 78 (78.24 to be precise) in February this year.
With 30 countries scoring higher than 95, clearly, Australia (and Vic) did not have the toughest lockdown, making this article rather pointless but whatever...
A loaded headline and opening paragraph that makes this all seem like some sort of scandal, when in fact it isn't. The article goes on to explain why these staff are still getting paid despite not working and the reasons make perfect sense.
.@theage was whinging about this last year also. It was poor journalism then and it's poor journalism now. When setting up hotel quarantine, you can't just contract a few hotels. You contract the hotels you need for capacity and then additional hotels in case problems arise.
"As I said on The Project last night ADF support was offered to the Andrews Govt for quarantine from the start"
This is an entirely different argument from what he presented last night.
Support and Security are different and the Coate Report agrees.
Yesterday @StevePriceMedia was claiming that Vic didn't want the ADF to RUN quarantine. Support to Quarantine is different to RUNNING quarantine or providing SECURITY.
Steve knows he is wrong and now he is trying to change his argument from running quarantine to supporting it.
I received this disgusting and transphobic flyer from the @ACLobby in my letterbox today. The scare tactics are only half-truths at best. A thread. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #auspol#springst#LGBTQ
'Parents like you' only applies if you are a parent that is transphobic or homophobic and you try to suppress your child's sexual and/or gender identity.
For most parents, this doesn't apply. A good parent loves their child no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity.
A good parent would seek medical advice on such a matter and as Attorney-General @JaclynSymes said during the debate on this bill:
"...nothing in this bill changes the advice, support and medical treatment that a qualified medical professional deems appropriate."