Originally Posted by
BuzzBox
Since when do any of the state premiers act in the best interests of the Federation in preference to the perceived interests of their own state? Rightly or wrongly, none of them do. Ever.
I'd have to disagree with you on that one. Gladys was more than happy to bring in thousands of returning citizens a week through NSW, with the attendant risk that entailed to her state. She didn't shutdown international arrivals like Victoria did, when they had their outbreak. She didn't cry like a petulant child and demand her state arrivals cap be halved, then halved
again like McGowan did.
She's certainly not without fault, and I'm still not sold she
didn't know what her dodgy bed-buddy was up to, but in terms of a Covid response, she at least
tried to keep things going for the country. Where would we be if Gladys did a McGowan or Anna-Stayaway and shut NSW off to the rest of the
world, given nearly 50% of all returning arrivals came through Sydney and god-only-knows the percentage of airfreight?