If this country ever needed a graphic demonstration of the stupidity of having state governments in a country of 25 million people we are getting it in spades.
This extra level of bone-headed bureaucrats is doing nothing to assist with this crisis. State police setting up road blocks at their respective borders all with their own set of state directives (on top of the federal ones) which they then apply in a haphazardly overreaching fashion that sees an 18 year old L-plater being fined for driving with a family member or a couple fined for posting happy snaps of photographs taken 12 months ago. How is this helping?
These ridiculous actions by state bureaucrats are doing nothing to help with the China virus situation in their games of oneupmanship to see which premier can deliver the most draconian set of restrictions. They make no sense, have a serious negative effect on the mental health and well-being of their citizens and costing a lot more in terms of the destruction of the economy and resulting in a lot more people unemployed than is necessary.
The only people I would like to see lose their jobs are every single one of our state bureaucrats from the premier down in every state of Australia. Run the whole show federally. Set up a single set of protocols for the whole country and enforce them from a common sense perspective.
I don’t know how long it will be before there is a serious backlash against this lockdown. A common sense approach is needed yesterday.