Talk about Stockholm Syndrome!

Interesting article in todays age/smh , "Can you come home , what happens if you get COVID overseas"

You won't have travel insurance if you travel to any country on DFAT "do not travel" list & that is all countries except NZ

How interesting is it then to see the PM at the QF Love In last week , pumping up the volume, telling everyone how wonderful if all is
& of course lots of "look at me" time with QF people. When his Governments official advice is "do not travel"

If you contract Covid in the USA & need hospitalisation you won't receive treatment unless you hand over a very large amount of cash upfront circa $50K - or no treatment for you

Contact Aust Embassy all you like , they will not assist you financially & will point out that you ignored Fed Govt travel advice & the fact that the PM attended
a QF OS travel promotion is meaningless

You may well find yourself in over your head if you wish to go yodelling in the Swiss Alps over summertime or duck over to Cali to get that selfie with MIckie & Minnie

The Airline staff will all get VIP medical/swift evacuations - not available to Joe Average

You go down hard with Covid OS , you are on your own Feds won't touch you, QF will sell you a biz class fare to RIo but they sure aren't going to put their hand in their pocket to get you out of there if you get Covid

Telfer, despite all the doom and gloom you paint one thing is for sure- people are ready to live (and travel) again. Maybe it has something to do with the science/proof we see of people being double vaccinated. Not even you will be able to scare the travellers away with your endless negative rambles!

Telfer, hopefully this puts you at ease. God knows you need some cheering up!

https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...ravel-warnings

Yep onward and upward. It needs to become fashionable to push aside those still thriving in the wallows of COVID regressiveness and disproportionate caution. There were folks on this thread just months ago, predicting a dire collapse of the NSW medical system and telling us how they were not sending "their" nurses and health workers into the pandemic inferno. Time's up- it's actually now time to build the economy and opportunities for younger generations.

So Dan Andrews last week: unvaccinated tennis players wouldn’t get a visa for Australia.

Today: they can come in unvaccinated but with hard quarantine.

Once again, sports people and celebrities get their own way.

No Tennis Australia is saying they can come but the Federal governments saying they won't get a Visa.

Isn't that how ride share entrenched its model in Oz.

not with this government

SA open Nov 23.

When will NT and TAS open?

As one open WA closes. West Australians seeing Maui and New York in their feed while they can go to Margaret River and Broome (again).

MMs time is coming.

”they pay in taxes”…… you mean GST? WA residents don’t pay for all that iron ore do they????

To a degree I think you just have to ignore WA, things will change only when interested parties indicate their concerns/problems to MM and he finally decides to "pivot", draw your own timeline.

Some of that maybe - second hand - but a friend from east coast wanted some travel, initially booked Porn* early April to Bali, now early Feb and required covid insurance for $80.00 available on arrival, imagine have to be supported/underwritten by the Indonesian government.
As with all insurance "read the fine print" but believe that's what's available.

Along with the WA mining companies staff shortages there'd be more than a few locals wondering why east coast can fly to Bali - but WA can't.

Good point. That subject deserves a thread of its own. Move in to a country, blatantly break the law and then demand the law is changed. They bloody got away with it.

Tas opens Dec 15th

So pretty much the whole country excepts NT and WA by 20/12, with NT joining approx end of Jan. WA ? Who knows, who cares.

Why would they pay for it? They own it.

Hahaha, that made me snort my coffee!

I love your ignorant bliss WingNut!!

OK. Actually owned by the Crown, but the only body empowered to collect royalties on behalf of "the community" is the Western Australian government.
And there is no requirement to share that with any other state.

No GST involved.

The ride share economy is a classic example of the government just waiting for something to break the strangle hold of a powerful institution, taxi companies. They had created a monster they couldn't touch by law by artificially restricting cab numbers and making licence plates worth hundreds of thousands of dollars when the issue fee is a few hundred. Add to that a taxi directorate that was a law unto itself. The situation could have been fixed years ago with unlimited licences available and proper rules and conditions for drivers which would have self stabilised the industry. Instead the money involved led to a corrupt system where drivers made no more than basic wage and plate owners played ponzi scheme with cars. Now you have an unlimited amount of cars with unlimited drivers with no minimum conditions which will just end up eventually in a mess once the novelty runs out.

Why should a state have to share it's royalties?

Most states have mineral resources they can take advantage of, why is NT, SA and QLD which are mineral rich unable to take advantage of these deposits like WA? Are they all just stupid except for WA?

I get pissed off my tax goes to subsidise Joyces and Palmers crap in QLD.