Was just about to say.. the situation is changing fast .

Well those currently on JQ978 CNS-PER will be in for a rude shock on arrival.

The Government web site has not been updated. The Premier’s FB page has announced it, and was just confirmed again on a Seven News update. WA is shut to QLD.

I do so love a government that communicates their policy on. FB page but not on their own website.
Amateurs.

My point was NO hotel quarantine which is still correct.

This might help those without Facebook
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/ann...ned-queensland

So here we go again! Maybe it just wasnt made clear to him that he must isolate or maybe he was confused or maybe he didnt understand english very well or maybe he asked many times if he could hold a party & was told he could!
Im thinking he should run to the media now & demand a public apology from the government.
What he needs is a massive fine & be made front up publicly & apologise to all who are about to have their easter f....d due to his selfish actions.

given the economic cost will be measured in the tens of millions being conservative, plus the inconvenience to tens of thousands of people, I would be making him a guest of her majesty for a decade or so plus confiscate all his assets.

Lucky he’s not an African female or his name and face would have been splashed across the front page of the Courier Mail already this morning.

Totally agree but in all likelihood will get hit with a wet feather like most of the others who blatantly thumbed their noses at the law. Case in point the 2 Kenyan women who got 80 hours
of community service this week. Pffft- not sure what useful task they’d be given to perform requiring supervision- may as well do it yourself. They must be laughing all the way to the nearest LV store.

There was no party of twenty five people at his house, there were FIVE people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-...bane/100033302

Amazed that our all knowing media got it wrong.

The media simply want to stir up dissent and anger, look at the responses above.

25 people at a party narrative was actually put out by QLD health. What’s worse is that they said they were able to quarantine all 25. QLD health really are a bunch of amateurs. Why would you not double check your information before putting out such an inflammatory update? Then on top of that, indicate that they’re so amazing by being able to track down all 25.
In the end, 5 people at the house and 4 of them were housemates.

yes I heard that too after posting my other comment, which I will stand by as a general principle.

doesn’t give you a lot of faith in Qld health after over a year of dealing with this WuHu flu.

Despite being 1000 bloody miles away.
Its like me in London being quarantined for 3 cases in Madrid.

Took me and my crew on arrival into Melbourne 4 hours to be processed as an international arrival last week. Despite ALL crew being vaccinated (with vaccines approved by the TGA) we're still required to be tested and handed detention notices to be locked up in hotel rooms for the period of our layover. Even countries with similar covid profiles like Thailand and Singapore don't require the comically over the top protocols that Australia seems to have put on itself.

It was embarrassing to say the least.

Fuel-Off :ok:

Yes it would be good if the WA government would indulge us and provide the risk assessments that lead to these stringent rules. Queensland is a big state, everybody can't suddenly become low or medium risk overnight without good reason and meticulous assessment of the probability of community transmission. They're using a steamroller to flatten a milk carton. It's a small mercy the government is at least consistent, they were doing this before the election.

Did a SYD return out of BNE today, needed to fill in a 6 page border declaration form to be let off the aerobridge to walk next door and get on the next plane back to BNE on a 40 min turnaround, got a nice blue sticker stuck on me to prove I had been assessed by NSW health for the 2 mins I was in the terminal. This crap is worse than the peak of the COVID last year, WTF is going on with these idiots?

Isn’t it ironic.
Some pilots on here winging about how strict the regulations are...and then complaining how they should be above them. Can’t put 2 and 2 together. I wonder if the stable approach criteria applies to them or if they are above that too?

Some pylots can even spell. Others can’t. Keep winging it mate. Whinging is not your strong point.

Hang on, everyone keeps saying NSW is the only Cool State.

All the other states are led by morons, true?

Is NSW not Cool anymore?

All states are not cool now. Lucky we have such good leadership at the federal level to set a good example and get them all on the right track :yuk:

Like how today Health Minister Hunt announced 500,000 vaccinations have been completed. Great achievement guys, only a shame about this little prediction:

Four million Australians to be vaccinated for coronavirus by end of March - Morrison (January 7th)

The only way this is ending is with an appropriate level of immunisation. The longer that takes the longer this goes on.....

Well anyone who thinks for a moment that anyone (or any one state) gets everything right every single time is a moron who's lived an incredibly sheltered and unobservant life.

Compared with "hide under the bedclothes" McGowan, "I saved you so you must vote for me" queen P and "lets kill some 800+ people whilst looking after our mates" Chairman Dan NSW has been pretty well balanced in their approach IMHO.

Not perfect - but little is - however miles ahead of the other clowns.

Thanks for the spelling correction Troo. You should see how bad I am with numbers. Like when I wrote 25 instead of 5 last week at work.

QLD lockdown for three days. Schools closed. 4 cases. Anna just recommended other states declare Brisbane a hotspot.

Ridiculous.

Queenslanders voted in a clown, and they’re surprised their getting a circus?

Very ‘convenient’ too, coming the day after JobKeeper ends. :hmm:

Not all Queenslanders voted for her!

Well enough did so she has an absolute majority to do absolutely anything and to continue her magnificent leadership absolutely.

For another 3.5 years.

Be intersting to see what state the State is in when she's finished with it. :ugh:

Just 'Greater Brisbane' in lockdown. Not the whole of Qld.

Most other states (bar) NSW have some form of border restrictions on 'Greater brisbane' already, expect some of those states to step that up to 'mandatory hotel quarantine' at own expense shorty.

Edit: Also masks mandatory at public indoor venues across the whole of Qld.

The problem they've got now:

- Four new community cases today, two are currently unlinked to the previous positive individuals.
- The brother of the first positive last week was unknowingly infectious in the community for up to two weeks.
- Two of today's positives travelled to Byron while infectious.
- One of today's positives travelled to Gladstone while infectious.

QLD health KNEW last Friday that they had unknown community transmission going on. It was later confirmed genomically that it was linked to the cluster from two weeks prior, meaning it had potentially been going on for that period. This was always a far riskier situation than a single positive cleaner being out in the community, which led to the previous lockdown. God only knows why, when the risk was clearly higher, there was no lockdown last week and masks weren't mandated until today.

It’s also amazing how we’ve gone from being ‘very comfortable’ on the weekend to the now standard ‘this is highly transmissable, tricky virus etc.’.

You’d also have to question the timing of the lockdown. Done by Thursday, all set for the Easter weekend. Sorry Anastasia. The damage is done to QLD tourism for these holidays - again.

If they had called it on friday when indeed they had many of the facts they have today we may well not be in this mess.
They have blatantly let it get a head start on them whilst once again screwing tourism,wonder if she is still keeping queenslanders safe!

I suspect that come Thursday Anastasia will get a tough lesson in leadership.

It’s easy to ‘slam the borders closed’ and say that ‘Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders’ when all you’re doing is keeping those nasty Southerners out. It’s going to be a lot harder to tell people that Easter won’t be happening and to look your tourism operators in the eye when it’s your own government’s failure.

It’s also fascinating to note the change of language. When things are going well it’s always first person singular, ‘I’m very comfortable.’ When things are going badly, third person singular, ‘ooohhh....it’s a tricky virus.’ In short, I’ve done a great job vs. it’s not my fault.

If there is any community transmission in Byron, then that will be another state and another prime easter holiday spot that will cop it

Queen P thinks Queensland ends at Tin Can Bay anyway - more flights SYD-CNS, MEL-CNS, ADL-CNS for Easter and the small part of the state she gives a sh1t about can cop it.

Maybe SYD-CNS, but no-one from other states will have confidence to cross the border...just now SA has closed to the whole of QLD, more will follow suit

Cairns needs to be kept in its own bubble as such. Isolate it from the rest of the state. The tourism from Sydney and Melbourne is huge for the next 3 weeks. Keep the confidence going in this region.

I don’t think 3 days will be 3 days.

Except this ‘lockdown’ like the previous one is just bloody stupid. It doesn’t come into effect until 5 this afternoon. So what do you think people are doing from the time in was announced until 5... yep leaving Brisbane for the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, for NSW. Potentially spreading it far and wide.

This is where the airlines need to have flexibility in their bookings, QF for example, free date changes only, if there was free change to destination, people from SYD / MEL might change their holiday to Byron, Darwin, somewhere other than QLD. With a free date change, people will just put it off for a 6 months or cancel and stay at home or do a road trip instead.

WA has just closed the border to QLD. No 14 day Q. Unless exempt ( and it’s a very short list), people from QLD can no longer enter WA.

so presumably, or more correctly, obviously anyone from WA who was planning to visit Qld anytime soon will not be. But then I imagine that is the same for anyone.

Its a real sh1t show in Cairns - masks on, masks off, masks on, masks off..... wheel of fortune seems to have stopped on masks on.

Cairns is about to have bigger problems than who is wearing a mask.