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Originally Posted by T3rminator
Breaking news: Dictator Dan wields illegal powers and detains NZ arrivals at melb airport. Growing anger at police overreach.
Astonishing this has somehow been twisted into a Vic fault.
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Yep, it's unbelievable the length some of the one eyed, biased and political agenda driven will go to. During cabinet meetings prior to NZ arrivals, DA had asked the Federal government (Morrison) to ensure international arrivals to Sydney cannot catch a connecting flight to VIC. The VIC-NSW border is closed to the general public, but isn't closed for essential workers and freight,
as was requested by Morrison. The NZ travellers aren't either of those, so it was up to Fed run border force, and NSW government to make sure they could not board a flight to VIC.
The NZ travellers arrived in Sydney, and despite VIC governments request, the Fed run Australian Border Force, along with the NSW government, failed to implement any strategies to ensure international arrivals could not travel to other states that are not open to international travellers! And this is somehow VIC/Andrews fault!??
If I was to be cynical, I wouldn't be surprised if the NSW authorities, and the Border Force knew that some of the NZ arrivals had connecting flights to Melbourne, and turned a blind eye and let them board the flight, just minutes after arriving in Sydney.
This is, once again, the Morrison government, and NSW playing political games. They turned a bind eye to the VIC governments request, just so they could put pressure on VIC government to
fully open up the border to NSW, and to international arrivals. Just as Morrison did back in July. Can you imagine if the VIC-NSW border did in fact open up back in July, and the clusterf**k that was the northern suburbs of Melbourne had spread into NSW?? Who do you think Morrison and Berejiklian would have blamed then?
On another note, it is true that NZ has one of the lowest infected numbers in the world. And the NZ arrivals most likely are (or have to prove to be) negative before travelling to Sydney. But why put them at risk of catching the virus by allowing them to travel to VIC, which is only just beginning to recover from the worst infection rate in Australia? And still has a number of mystery cases of unknown origin? If NSW wants to take the risk of allowing international travellers to come to Sydney, contract Covid, with the risk of them falling ill, or worse - while they're in NSW, or even potentially taking it back to NZ, that's Morrison's and Berejiklian's choice. Andrews is probably not willing to take that risk.