We have to remember that actions tend to be shaped by our own lived experience. And fortunately or perhaps unfortunately our experience of WuHu flu in Australia has been very different to most other countries. Look at the case and death rates per million population for countries like the uk or the us and compare them to Australia. It has only been due to the latest Sydney outbreak that our vaccination rates have really ramped up. If our politicians are talking about rates of 80%, good luck. Come back this time next year. Getting from 70 to 80% will be a very different story than getting from 40 to 50 or even 50 to 60. Fingers crossed I am wrong .

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

356 in NSW today and 3 deaths :eek:

It looks like the NSW border is done until Q1 next year. December could be challenging, nobody in and nobody out. Fatigue will start to bite as people will want out.

Andrews and McGowan won’t have a bar of it.

It’s scary now, last yr the nation was at the same position in relation to covid. Now, we have NSW that will be isolated for the foreseeable future, are company already knows this and has requested LWOP applications for SY base only. Thanks Gladys and you have the hide to be still saying this is a hard lockdown nothing more they could of done!

There is never accountability with these politicians 1 Billion a week is just a number.

I think it’s truly wonderful that people like SOPS and WingNut60, neither of whom are working Pilots, like to come onto a Pilot forum and explain how awesome closed borders are and what a great man McClown is. WingNut tells us everything is fine because the approach to RW24 is busy. FFS! :rolleyes:

We also have non-working pilots telling us how bad they are for balance though :}

You say it like, closed, grounded, redundant is a new concept in Aviation.

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For the record, I don’t think closed borders are awesome. However, I have quite a few friends that are flying in WA every day and I do think that’s awesome. And while we can keep things under control they can keep flying.

in other news, it seems our friend in Ballina does not believe the virus exists.

I wonder what he thinks he has got if his belief is the virus doesnt exist,he obviously cares a lot for his wife too if the story about her being in a syd hospital with covid is correct.
I guess it will never happen in nsw from the way gladys talks but maybe a curfew is what is needed.
If the numbers continue to show there are many out in the community every day infected with the virus it seems to me the only way to stop the spread is to stop people moving around as they are,guess im stating the obvious there.

I dont think its just those 2 that wont have a bar of it,its possible none of the others will have a bar of it.
If all the other states can keep clean there is a good chance of travel between most states except nsw of course,hopefully this will happen & get people flying again soon.

As long as the fear out there remains high in the community the hopes & dreams of millions will be kept squashed by the lunatics in charge!

Well you don’t have to worry. Clive Palmer is now taking out Court Procedures to stop the roll out of vaccines in WA. Im not sure why.. but if this goes ahead (which I’m sure it won’t), but if it did .. we will have to put up a wall of steel to all of the East Coast.

I would love to know what planet Clive lives on.. or what he smokes.

Or not. We could actually do something different, you know like Europe, the UK, USA.

I didn't know that the WA Govt was paid for the iron ore that was sold. Silly me thought that they got royalties $/ton or am I mistaken.

Correct, but volumes are certainly up on the back of the higher prices.

Actually getting some of our GST back has been pretty handy too.

GST has nothing to do with mining royalties.

I don't remember saying that it had.

The context was the source of WA's relative prosperity at the moment.
It's not all coming from mining royalties.

Yes, in this case you are mistaken. Royalties on iron ore exports are levied largely on an ad valorem basis, that is as a percentage of the commodity price index value per tonne that is re-calculated on a regular basis (six monthly I think) using the market price. For direct shipment of unbeneficiated (unconcentrated) iron ore the royalty rate is 7.5 percent of the index value of the shipped product.

If you compare Western Australian state royalty revenue from say 2017-18, when iron ore was trading under $1 per tonne, with last year, with iron ore in the $1.50 and upwards range, there's a difference of over $3 billion or about 60 percent ($5.21 billion in 2017-18 versus $8.29 billion for 2020-21). Over half of the increased total revenue between those two budgets ($28.5 billion versus $34.1 billion) is driven by royalties, which are in turn driven by the iron ore price.

True. But many people are misled into thinking that the spot pricing reflects actual revenue.
The vast bulk of the iron ore sold from W.A. is sold on long-term contracts which are at a rate considerably below the oft-quoted newspaper headline prices but are a more secure revenue source for the larger producers.

344 cases today. What a gold standard **** up