Palmers High Court action must be looking promising. WA Govt’ wouldn’t want to be ordered to reopen.

Greater Sydney is essentially the whole state in my employers book. It’s not a viable operation relying on regional pax to get the Sydney base moving.

Click of the fingers and she is closed again. I reckon that will play out soon after they open the gates to Greater Sydney again.

As mentioned elsewhere the consequences of not getting FNQ and SEQ tourism moving for a few months before potential months of rolling downpours early next year will destroy what hope is left.

You really need to pray we don’t get a cyclone this upcoming wet season. The met guys are a tad nervous.

new premier might open border to SYD on Sunday.

Looks like Sweden was only country to do the right thing & close nothing. Only deaths in old peoples homes (maybe they should have locked them down, maybe)

LNP will hopefully win tomorrows qld election. CHO will be sacked, but will get ~$2m payout. Nuts, considering all the bad calls she's made.

I don’t things are going so great in Sweden.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-...umber/12829990

cases mean absolutely nothing. Deaths are what counts & none in general population who are healthy.

Nothing was closed, economy as normal.

It now appears you don't even need herd immunity as it turns out, corona is just a bad case of flu. Look at 100s of billions wasted & continue being wasted. Businesses & lives ruined & for what ?

Who will sack her and for what reason/s? The CHO is a public servant; not an employee of a political party.

So, Sweden went from 4,944 deaths on June 08 to 5,934 today, a 20% increase in nearly 5 months, yet in that time, cases went from 71,667 cases to 121,167 a nearly 70% increase. The data doesn't lie, the fatality rate there is dropping substantially, even with increasing cases.

the new qld premier will sack her silly, as soon as votes are counted.

all deaths in sweden are old people & others who are vulnerable, so no need to close the country & everything in it. Close the nursing homes if you must. No nursing home residents are running around the country or flying anywhere. Same with cancer patients with reduced immunity.

It would have to come from the Minister, but sure your story sounds cool.

Entertain me more: for what reasons would she be sacked?

All of them were old and vulnerable? Fake news.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...by-age-groups/

Believe it is a contract position, you could choose not renew when the current one expires which is SOP for govt to move on people in higher positions. Whilst I don't agree with her, not a reason to boot her.

I think Taiwan with 9 deaths....no lockdown, has done a bit better than Sweden.
one of the first to close border to China.
masks mandatory in public, social distancing, and a purpose built quarantine/hospital built after sars ready to go.
Western governments did nothing, despite continual warnings from the experts that a pandemic was inevitable.

Despite what the media says, make your own judgement.

Corrected for population.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavir...pickerSort=asc

Sweden's COVID-19 deaths per capita rate is nearly 17 times higher than ours and their economy is far from normal. They suffered a 20 percent more significant downturn in GDP than us, and their COVID-related spike in unemployment was 25 percent higher than ours and unlike ours, their unemployment is showing no signs of recovery (it's been stuck at 9+ percent for months).

By any objective public health or economic measure I wouldn't be holding Sweden up as an example of how to manage coronavirus.

Except that it manifestly is not just a bad case of flu. Coronavirus is currently the third most prevalent cause of death in the US. So third leading cause of death and that's from a late start at the end of February so covering just 8 months of the year.

That is most likely the case in the UK also - third leading cause of death (in Sweden it is currently number 5, possibly number 4 by year's end).

In a surprise to no one, QF has decided to close bookings to USA and UK until October 2021 at the earliest. Given the state of the virus overseas, this is expected and if no vaccine becomes viable will probably extend further. On a more positive note, they have kept bookings open for potential bubble locations like Japan, NZ, Singapore, Fiji and Hong Kong.

I simply can’t believe that some people on here.. ( that I assume are professional pilots ), think this thing is ‘just the flu’. Have you read about the after affects if you survive? You may never fly again. What don’t some people get?

+1, spot on

By all the polls been run today, they have Labor winning so looks like indefinite border closure for SY and NSW as their demands will not be met.