A Tasmanian man who flew to Perth via Sydney is on the run after being denied entry and ordered into hotel quarantine, police claim.
Western Australian police say the man travelled from Tasmania to Sydney, while the city was in lockdown, and continued on to Perth on Thursday.
He fled after being formally denied permission to enter the state and told to stay in hotel quarantine while waiting for a flight out, police said.
The 32-year-old s current location is not known but police believe he may be travelling with another man from Perth to the Geraldton area.
Western Australia recorded one new local case of COVID-19 on Sunday amid the first phase of interim post-lockdown restrictions in Perth and the Peel region.
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Voluntary Assisted Dying accessible to eligible Western Australians from today
Access for all Western Australians regardless of where they live
Additional money allocated for palliative care
Care Navigator Service to ‘walk with’ people seeking access
Legislation includes more than 100 safeguards
Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) has today become accessible to eligible Western Australians.
The historic and long-awaited legislation will give terminally ill people throughout the State the ability to choose the manner and timing of their death.
The landmark legislation, which was passed in December 2019, enables eligible people to request access to assisted dying through a medical practitioner from today.
To date, 37 practitioners throughout WA have been approved to train to administer voluntary assisted dying services and an additional 59 practitioners have so far requested to access the required training. It is expected that the number of approved practitioners will grow
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There was no such thing as a COVID-19 pandemic playbook when Australia and the rest of the world locked down last year.
Governments around the world had to write up and then change policies and protocols to deal with the crisis on the run, as they learnt more about the virus and its ever-emerging variants.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced the state’s third lockdown for 2021.
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has been one of the most cautious leaders when it comes to outbreaks with a playbook featuring hair-trigger ‘hard’ interstate borders and a motto of acting early to prevent spread.