Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
Incorrect Dr Dre. Stand downs were issued due to the border being shutdown - the first lot of stand downs came into effect to coincide with the closure.
Sure about that? Not what I’m reading from the sources I’ve looked at.
It looks like the first indications of the drawback of capacity was the 9th of March, then more substantial stand downs were announced late evening in the media on the 18th of March, and in press release early the next morning. The government didn’t announce the international border closure until the afternoon of the 19th. It was close but stand downs happened before the closure. Up until that point the federal government was just “discouraging” international travel.
Another article from a workplace relations law professor indicating stand downs can continue until the “trigger event” (the Coronavirus pandemic, from the article) is over:
And it can be for an indefinite period of time, according to Professor Forsyth, but only if the situation which has caused the stand-downs - in this case, potentially, the coronavirus pandemic - is still ongoing