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We must tighten up our quarantine controls

Readers discuss Victoria’s snap lockdown.

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Canberra must face up to its responsibilities

Canberra must face up to its responsibilities
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May 3, 2021 — 12.00am
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QUARANTINE AND THE TRAVEL BAN
Canberra must face up to its responsibilities
The Commonwealth government can’t ignore its duty to provide effective, purpose-built quarantine facilities throughout Australia (“Shifting pandemic politics brings PM to the table”,
The Age, 1/5).
Like national defence, quarantine is ultimately a Commonwealth responsibility. We face potential aggression from foreign countries as a nation, not as individual states and territories. Any proposal to fund separate armies, navies and air forces would be laughed at as ludicrous. Defence is up to the Commonwealth. Neither in a pandemic should the states and territories have to scrabble to find money for quarantine. COVID-19 has been a fact of life for more than a year now.

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We controlled the spread, but failed the rollouts

We controlled the spread, but failed the rollouts
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April 10, 2021 — 12.02am
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COVID-19
We controlled the spread, but failed the rollouts
Australia’s vaccination rate at 3per cent lags behind many developed countries. In contrast to New Zealand with its large stores of Pfizer and three other vaccines, we are primarily reliant on AstraZeneca which has been linked with concerning side effects for those under the age of 50. It means we are under pressure to get more doses of Pfizer and other vaccines, quickly. Worryingly, COVID variants are developing at a fast rate which requires a much more proactive and flexible response. After Australia responded so well in controlling community spread, how has this happened?

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Injustices are being committed in our name

Injustices are being committed in our name
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The obliteration of all who inhabit our planet

The obliteration of all who inhabit our planet
January 27, 2021 â 10.30pm
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THE HOLOCAUST
Act now to ensure that we have a history left
It is indeed heart-warming, and it fills me with pride, to read two political opponents â the Liberalsâ Josh Frydenberg and Laborâs Josh Burns â â³â£co-penningâ³â£ an article which reminds us of the horrors of the Holocaust (Opinion, 27/1). I hope and trust this event is taught to all school students for eternity. Not only did millions die at the hands of the Nazis, the killings were indeed industrialised on a grand scale â unimaginable.

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