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Findings only add to political sledging Findings only add to political sledging December 22, 2020 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. HOTEL QUARANTINE INQUIRY Findings only add to political sledging The ‘‘scathing’’ findings of the Victorian inquiry into hotel quarantine (‘‘Shoddy is as shoddy did, and 801 died’’, 22/12) highlight the use of a privatised and casualised security workforce as a p...

Letters of 22 December 2020: Negligence threatens our virus success Dec 22, 2020 – 12.01am Share Australians paid a massive price to effectively eliminate COVID-19. It will take decades to repay the debt. This was an investment to save lives and allow the economy to recover. The NSW government had plenty of time to devise plans and implement effective controls for passengers and flight crew arriving from overseas. This was clearly going to be the prime source of any recontamination. We will p...

Health by Natalie Brown and Lauren McMah 20th Dec 2020 5:52 AM | Updated: 21st Dec 2020 11:27 AM NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has suggested her state counterparts shut their borders on Sydney residents too soon and urged them to "think compassionately" as border decisions devastate Christmas plans. Every state and territory ha...

Health by Natalie Brown and Lauren McMah 20th Dec 2020 5:52 AM | Updated: 21st Dec 2020 11:27 AM NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has suggested her state counterparts shut their borders on Sydney residents too soon and urged them to "think compassionately" as border decisions devastate Christmas plans. Every state and territory ha...

Well, it didnt take long did it for our enviable position as a COVID-free country to evaporate. Less than a week ago we had all but eliminated coronavirus from the Australian community. and the only new cases were those we imported whenever another aircraft landed and disgorged its passengers and crew.   Aircrews at Sydney Airport on Saturday were collected by ground transport and taken to their hotels. Picture: David Swift To date, weve put our effort into making returned travellers go t...

Sydney’s Virus Cluster Surge Triggers Travel Restrictions Bloomberg 12/18/2020 Jason Scott © Bloomberg People and a dog walk along a path near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Australia’s recovery is poised to accelerate as cashed up households -- joined by Victorians released from Covid-19 lockdown -- fuel a spending boom, after the economy exited its first recession in three decades. (Bloomberg) -- Sydney is scrambling to contain an outbreak ...

Cruise ships may return to Napier in 2021 16 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read The inquiry into the Ruby Princess debacle has heard NSW Health officials made a series of serious mistakes, missing opportunities to prevent a deadly outbreak. Video / 10News The inquiry into the Ruby Princess debacle has heard NSW Health officials made a series of serious mistakes, missing opportunities to prevent a deadly outbreak. Video / 10News Cruise ships are a step closer to returning to Napier for the fir...

Are airline crews now the weakest link in our national quarantine system? WedWednesday 16 updated WedWednesday 16 Foreign flights remain the biggest risk to Australias low level of COVID-19. ( Print text only Cancel Incoming airline crew members should be treated the same way as international passengers and required to stay in high-standard quarantine hotels, an epidemiologist says. Key points: Australian-based crews must quarantine until their next foreign flight, or for 14 days, but some can ...

  SMS TO THE EDITOR ANON. I hope all these coal miners have used their large salaries wisely by paying off their home loans and toys as they might be out of jobs soon. Now that China is stopping coal imports. Last time there was a down turn a lot lost everything. None of the ones I know own their homes. They live the high life with all their "have better than the Jones". Changing from "keeping up with the Jones".   FACEBOOK COMMENTS Some Queensland workers could be forced to have a COVID-19...

  SMS TO THE EDITOR ANON. I hope all these coal miners have used their large salaries wisely by paying off their home loans and toys as they might be out of jobs soon. Now that China is stopping coal imports. Last time there was a down turn a lot lost everything. None of the ones I know own their homes. They live the high life with all their "have better than the Jones". Changing from "keeping up with the Jones".   FACEBOOK COMMENTS Some Queensland workers could be forced to have a COVID-19...