Originally Posted by
Ragnor
Hopefully these idiotic premiers out their personal career aspirations aside for one minute and put the people/ country first! WA FIFO workers are being affected with ships pilots running short and Mcgowen demanding they live in WA so the resource set core could be short of workers if it keeps going and QLD denied a pregnant women entry for emergency surgery which resulted in one of the two twins dying as they had to fly to Sydney.
I
was going to say if this was the case from a week ago, I didn't think she had lost the baby, but you are correct, it has just appeared this morning.
Here's one article.
As for the FIFO's, I am one of them. I couldn't temporarily move to WA early in the piece due to kids specialists and the KRviatrix being a NSW Health manager, but we have now got the telecommuting and teleheath setups in place so we
can move, but we are simply forbidden from entry to WA because we live in NSW. So are colleagues from Victoria. My employer is hurting
badly as a result of interstate FIFO crew not being allowed back in to WA. The "temporary" move was supposed to be for 3 months. Then it was extended by 2 months. Now you are expected to be there
indefinitely because no one knows when WA will reopen their borders - which as was found in the Palmer (No4) case above, will
only happen when the "eastern states" have had no community transmission for 28 days. NSW's
best 3 runs have been 22, 13 and 10 days. They've got no hope of 28 days!