âNo doubt about it, that is difficult. But by the same token we need to be sure we donât have another round, we donât have another spread of this infectious disease getting out of control in our community,â he said.
âWe know how easily it can happen, we know what the community has gone through.â
Premier Daniel Andrews has said in recent months that Victoriaâs upgraded contact tracing processes rivalled NSWâs contact tracing as the best in the country.
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Yet Victoria has imposed tougher travel restrictions than NSW, where visitors from WA can enter but must get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result.
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Parliamentary authorities ordered them to report to staff immediately on arrival
ACT Health asks the plane-load of passengers to go directly to their hotels
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The co-chair of Taiwanâs Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee says Australia should send a clear signal to Beijing that threats to Taiwan will not be tolerated, warning conflict over the island puts the entire Indo-Pacific in peril.
Wang Ting-yu called on all democratic countries to send a message to China days after the Peopleâs Liberation Army sent dozens of fighter jets and bombers over the Taiwan Strait in a sharp escalation of military incursions in the region.
Members of Taiwanâs armed forces during a military exercise in Hukou, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, last week.
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âAustralia should send a clear signal that this is a red line,â he said in an interview from the Legislative Yuan, the islandâs one-chamber parliament, in Taipei. âYou can increase your countryâs power but donât harass, bully or intimidate your neighbour in a military way.â
By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 28, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. The United States and Australia will hold a large-scale, multinational military exercise Down Under this summer despite the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Australian Defense Department. Dates and locations for the next installment of the biennial Talisman Sabre, which involved 34,000 U.S. and Australian personnel in 2019, have been posted on the Australian Department of Defence website. The drills, which take place mostly in the northeast state of Queensland, will kick off in late June and peak July 18-31, according to the agency.
The People’s Liberation Army Air Force on Saturday dispatched what the
Global Times gloatingly called a ‘bomber swarm’ of 13 combat aircraft into Taiwanese airspace just south of the island. This was much larger than previous sorties and included eight long-range H-6K bombers.
The US State Department called on China to stop ‘intimidating its neighbors’ and stated its ‘rock-solid’ commitment to Taiwan’s defence. In response, China deployed 15 combat aircraft to the same region on Sunday. ‘Sooner or later, these fighters will appear over the island of Taiwan’, said a
Global Times editorial.
Since Saturday the US aircraft carrier