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Here in Canberra the situation is holding at relatively free movement. Fortunately, just not that people want to come here at the best of times. Also, the majority employer (and adjacent industries) is able to handle working from home for the public servants.

I'm working 3-4 days at home per week and do those pesky face-to-face meetings when I have to.

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I think we're just finding out that we're no different to the rest of the world. Generally decent, willing to do whats needed. But there's always that 1 per cent of muppets who can and will bugger things up for everyone else due to self interest. Always going to happen - it's human nature.

The teenagers in question have been busted, big time. While part of me thinks "throw the book at them" (pour encourageur les autres), I think the media has dropped the ball by naming them.

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Those front pages today were absolutely shocking, especially considering the contortions the media went through in not naming all the rich white people who caught COVID in Aspen and the swanned around Toorak and the Mornington Peninsula ignoring quarantine. Really makes you wonder if those teenagers would have been put in the metaphorical stocks if they were white and wealthy

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And Clive wants WA to open up ...

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We're quite peeved that the easterners' heads on spike at the border thing has not been a sufficient deterrent to Clive. Doesn't help that ScottyFromMarketing is announcing that he's quite likely to win his court case even before it's been heard, although apparently the Federal government is "not siding" with Palmer.

Supreme Leader for Life Mark McGowan has very politely told Scotty to fuck off, so his approval rating will only go higher. Apparently 120,000 people have signed a petition asking for the border to remain shut! If Clive wins the court case and we're forced to reopen it'll be interesting to see the damage done to the Coalition's vote over here. Even my dyed in the wool Liberal voting parents think McGowan's doing an incredible job, so if the border reopens against SLFLMM's wishes then I'm pretty sure Scotty will cop the blame...

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I have to head to the border at the end of next month for compassionate grounds. Father in law diagnosed with cancer in a few places in his body. Heart wrenching for the family. But a month is so long away! In these times a month can change drastically.

Luckily i'm rural NSW so outside the Sydney cordon (for the moment) but people love to travel for the weekend out here (and i have to shop and work in town, kids go to school). Being isolated on my block was all fine - i live out in the bush, i can bunker down and yell at the cows to take their mooing elsewhere (and did do in the first few months), but then reality of family health hit. I want a refund on this year, can i speak to the manager please?

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I'm already masking up when I go out here in Wollongong.

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West Australia and maybe Tasmania seem to be the only states with a decent crackdown. Queensland is still pandering to the NRL anti vaxxers and letting any excuse past the border based on today’s news.

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I had no issue with the border between Qld & Nsw being closed, I am torn about the naming and shaming here of the teenagers, as you say if they were white and wealthy would it have been so 'over the place' .We have been in quarantine since late february when we were advised not to send our daughter to school by her specialists and avoid contact ourselves with others for her sake. she almost started back last week, but here in Logan we dont feel safe about her going back anytime soon, or even venturing out of the house now. Oh well no major issue, its not like I have a job to worry about going to now!

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It's been quite a lovely year.

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The best.

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Yeah as much as I like not having to commute to work because I am privileged enough to be able to work from home down here in Plaguetown I wouldn't wish a reemergence of the outbreak on QLD. Consistent advice with this virus has been go early and go hard if you want to minimize the impact as illustrated by NZ.

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Unfortunately I suspect they’ll only be going early and hard against the two dopey, selfish teenagers. The Courier Mail has already erected a gibbet in the Queen Street Mall.

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Karens and Ians live in every state here. Self entitlement is not a viral cure, but public floggings are oft entertaining.

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