A groundswell of opposition to Australia’s protracted border closure is brewing among Morrison government MPs, with city-based politicians leading a push to reopen faster and give vaccinated people more freedom to travel., despite the government aiming to offer everyone a vaccine by the end of 2021.
the international border should be reopened faster than planned, and warned the public’s tolerance for border closures would wane as vaccination progressed. Mr Sharma, who holds the inner Sydney seat of Wentworth, said: “There are real and significant costs, economic and personal, to keeping our borders closed. I am keen to see us reopening our borders, likely in a staged and incremental fashion, as soon as it is safe. The vaccination program should allow us to do so.”
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s budget assumes the Australian border won’t be reopened until the middle of 2022.Katie Allen, a doctor and federal Liberal MP for Higgins in Melbourne, said she agreed with Dr Coatsworth’s assessment of the futility of an elimination strategy. She said the litmus test for opening the border should be vaccinating the vulnerable, not necessarily the whole country.
Professor Sutton - who helped enact one of the world’s harshest lockdowns last year in Melbourne - told an audience late last month the time to reopen borders was once every adult had been offered a COVID vaccine.
michaelkoziol Monaco needs their presence. Poor dears.
michaelkoziol Pathetic attempt at trying to influence the political agenda...
michaelkoziol Truly revolting.
michaelkoziol I’d say 60% of the comments on here are either really stupid people or LNP 🤖 😂
michaelkoziol They are stupid men. Seriously.
michaelkoziol I take it that they have all been vaccinated for them to so flagrantly out everyone else at risk.
michaelkoziol Then they should be the one putting enormous pressure on the govt to rapidly ramp up purpose built quarantine facilities around the country. Only then can we accept way more people into our country. It can be done. The US military does it in the NT. So why not students too
michaelkoziol Can’t wait to see my family. Open up once vaccinated.
michaelkoziol What is the word for a group of idiots?
michaelkoziol Three dumb blokes
michaelkoziol Bring them home Hmm? 40% of the first flight from India had the C-Virus Yes they will go into Quarantine, BUT Things can go wrong Remember Labor Victoria Hotel Quarantine stuff up 800+ died
michaelkoziol 3 RWNJ inner city politicians could hardly be called a groundswell.
michaelkoziol Is it only men wanting this?
michaelkoziol They don't have the basic intelligence required to understand what the pandemic is and that if it gets into nursing homes it will be apocalyptic. They should be working to increase vaccinations not promoting vulture capitalism.