There’s been a ‘borderline savage’ response from the ‘McGowan regime’30/04/2021|7min
Sky News contributor Gemma Tognini says there has been a “borderline savage” response to Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s approach to COVID-19.
The Perth and the Peel regions recently went into a snap three-day lockdown after recording just one positive case of COVID-19.
“Everyone I think suspected that post the election there would be a mellowing, a reasoning of his approach,” Ms Tognini told Sky News host Catherine McGregor.
“But no, there was almost disbelief that he was going to lock the whole Perth and Peel area down for one case.
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan expects he will be able to provide details about any plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions from Saturday after a disaster council meeting later on Thursday.
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PM defends hotel quarantine s 99.99 success rate amid calls for a federal facility29/04/2021|2min
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended hotel quarantine in its current form as high-profile political figures in Queensland and Western Australia call for a federal facility.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan have both spoken in favour of federal facilities after breaches in their own state-run quarantine programs.
However, Mr Morrison hit back at such suggestions while in Darwin and pointed out hotel quarantine had a 99.99 per cent efficacy rate in containing the virus.
“The success rate of containing breaches in the hotel quarantine network is 99.99 per cent. Now I’d say that’s a pretty impressive stat. Here in Howard Spring’s it’s 100 per cent,” he said