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Remember, if it's safe and possible for you, support local businesses at this time. I am a regular of about 8 different small businesses and each of them have been depressing to chat to lately, but they absolutely light up when they get what they can.
If you can't do the contactless takeaway, give them a call and ask if they do their own delivery outside of Uber Eats.
If you can't do the contactless takeaway, give them a call and ask if they do their own delivery outside of Uber Eats.
big jump in cases yesterday. Over 100 in NSW alone. had to pop into work quickly to get my charger for work from home (thankfully my workplace is taking this super seriously), thankfully public transport seems a lot quieter, supermarkets still seem full. Feels like a weekend mostly.
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Man that story about the woman in the cafe being asked to social distance and her getting pissed and deliberately coughing in their face is infuriating. I wonder how that sort of shit could even be policed.
Can't help but feel like we should have enforced the 14 day quarantine at the border a long time ago when it was clear a pandemic was all but inevitable.
Tough times ahead for our country and the world with no end in sight. Whilst I'm working on the front line I'm thankful to be in one of the few industries where work basically continues as normal (except not being allowed leave and having to work extra hours).
Tough times ahead for our country and the world with no end in sight. Whilst I'm working on the front line I'm thankful to be in one of the few industries where work basically continues as normal (except not being allowed leave and having to work extra hours).
Nice incorrect turn of phrase I had there, cheers mate. You have to laugh a little at booze panic buying, so Australian.
EDIT: I'm real curious how things go down the track when borders and international travel are opened back up. Second wave of Covid? Hopefully some vaccine developments/discoveries kick in prior to that.
The Queensland Teacher's Union is planning to strike from Wednesday if the government doesn't close the schools, effectively closing them by default. Glad to see someone forcing the government's hand here. Simply disgusting that they're going ahead with the local council elections as scheduled. Would've been better to push back a couple of weeks and put everyone on postal votes.
I can't blame the teachers Union. If I was a Teachers I'd feel like I'm being treated like cannon fodder right now.
Also, I'm thankful I'm not the only one that finds them going ahead with local council elections as scheduled disgusting.
Wtf. She needs to be fined or locked up. Disgusting behaviour. What state did this happen?
It's frustrating that the feds aren't shutting schools down entirely, they're essentially sacrificing people in an effort to keep money flowing. The only reasons they aren't are;
Kids not going to school means parents have to stay at home, harming work.
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The HECS census date is the 31st of march, i.e. the final date before universities have their funds secured.
If cases skyrockets amongst children they really should be put through the wringer for not completely shutting schools down.
Kids not going to school means parents have to stay at home, harming work.
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The HECS census date is the 31st of march, i.e. the final date before universities have their funds secured.
If cases skyrockets amongst children they really should be put through the wringer for not completely shutting schools down.
That's how we are all feeling at the moment, looks like I'll be striking on Wed. What a joke of a government
The impact to the economy would be too severe. We have a conservative government that cares more about short term financial losses than about permanent losses of people.
My wife works in a shopping centre. She is baffled they are still open.
The food courts are packed and there is older people just lounging around drinking coffee without a care in the world.
People don't care.
The food courts are packed and there is older people just lounging around drinking coffee without a care in the world.
People don't care.
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SA: Schools stay open. Parents can keep their kids at home.
States and Territories Schools:
ACT: Face-to-face school closed by end of school day on the 23rd of March. Online school begins 24th of March. Announced by ACT Government on the 22nd of March.
NSW: School still open. Parents are advised to keep their kids at home if they have the ability. All school is now undertaken online, whether you attend physically or at home. Announced by Premier Gladys Berejiklian on 23rd of March at an 8am conference.
NT: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Chief Minister Michael Gunner on the 23rd of March at conference.
QLD: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on the 23rd of March at conference. Teachers expected to strike on Wednesday for mass closures of school.
SA: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Steven Marshall on the 23rd of March at conference.
VIC: School closed by end of school day on the 23rd of March. Easter Holidays have been extended from the 24th of March, to an expected date of the 14th of April. Inquiry in putting school online. Announced by Premier Daniel Andrews on the 22nd of March, reiterated at a morning conference on the 23rd of March.
WA: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Mark McGowan on the 23rd of March at conference.
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QLD to shut borders, however concerns are raised at the QLD/NSW border where people work in one side and live on the other.
States and Territories Schools:
ACT: Face-to-face school closed by end of school day on the 23rd of March. Online school begins 24th of March. Announced by ACT Government on the 22nd of March.
NSW: School still open. Parents are advised to keep their kids at home if they have the ability. All school is now undertaken online, whether you attend physically or at home. Announced by Premier Gladys Berejiklian on 23rd of March at an 8am conference.
NT: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Chief Minister Michael Gunner on the 23rd of March at conference.
QLD: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on the 23rd of March at conference. Teachers expected to strike on Wednesday for mass closures of school.
SA: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Steven Marshall on the 23rd of March at conference.
VIC: School closed by end of school day on the 23rd of March. Easter Holidays have been extended from the 24th of March, to an expected date of the 14th of April. Inquiry in putting school online. Announced by Premier Daniel Andrews on the 22nd of March, reiterated at a morning conference on the 23rd of March.
WA: School still open. Parents can keep their children at home but must follow social distancing rules, and complete studies online. Announced by Premier Mark McGowan on the 23rd of March at conference.
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QLD to shut borders, however concerns are raised at the QLD/NSW border where people work in one side and live on the other.
Maybe time for Tweed to temporarily secede from NSW and join QLD?
I hadn't even really thought about the food courts, but ... shit, yeah. Will the shopping centres end up just blocking off/removing all the seating and force everything to be takeaway only, I wonder? (At least until everything else gets closed down too.)
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Shit my best friend is in Byron...hope she gets back to brissy safe
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Usually individuals would be given a 48 hour period.
If your friend can't drive, you should tell your friend to take the coach home considering domestic flights are being cancelled.
Looks like NSW Trainlink is going to book out soon. https://transportnsw.info/regional-...&to=BNE&dateTime=2020-03-25T00:00:00&P_0_PT=A
Jesus fucking Christ, just close the fucking schools! You can't say that we're doing the Singapore model if you're not implementing ALL of the policies that Singapore did.
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Their reasoning for not closing schools is:
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Gladys Berejiklian has stated that schools should be kept open for parents that have no choice (have to go to work). New Zealanders are keeping schools open temporarily for students who parents are healthcare workers or on the front lines. NSW's model for schools is to allow teachers and students seperated, where students will be in a controlled area doing work online.
So the government is saying, but no, they didn't. We saw the exact same bullshit from this government back during the failed 2016 census. Centrelink and MyGov were swamped by literally hundreds of thousands of people legitimately trying to access them. That's not a DDOS, even if the outcome is functionally the same. Claiming it's a DDOS is simply the government ass covering how poor the infrastructure behind these systems is.
EDIT: And now he's just admitted on the floor of parliament there's no evidence of any specific attack.
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Queensland confirms that borders close on midnight Wednesday. No specific news yet but will update you.
Your friend will be expected to self isolate if she arrives past 12am Wednesday for 14 days. Maybe it's best to tell her to leave Byron Bay.
The Australian people have voiced their displeasure at the idea that they should be leaners, not lifters, by turning out in their thousands and DDoSing myGov. We have heard you silent Australians loud and clear and will be working hard to make these measures more punitive.
Now we'll see the results of centrelink being chipped away at for the last few decades, and the gross mistreatment of the unemployed in this country laid bare. The system is overburdened and understaffed as it is, this is going to be painful for a lot of people trying to get relief. I passed the centrelink office in Richmond and the line ran down the road a couple of hundred metres at least. (people distancing themselves at least) No doubt this will add further stress to people.
I feel like ideologically you couldn't have a worse party in power at the moment; they have second guessed every decision instead of being pro-active and decisive because it undermined their one supposed credential which is the economy (or rather their shyster version of a good economy which has largely just favoured the rich and has largely destroyed the kind of institutions which would have been critical to ride out this crisis)
We need to have a complete rethink of the economy once this is done. We can't return to what we had before.
I feel like ideologically you couldn't have a worse party in power at the moment; they have second guessed every decision instead of being pro-active and decisive because it undermined their one supposed credential which is the economy (or rather their shyster version of a good economy which has largely just favoured the rich and has largely destroyed the kind of institutions which would have been critical to ride out this crisis)
We need to have a complete rethink of the economy once this is done. We can't return to what we had before.
I guess the was SA is doing it, if you can prove its for employment reasons they will let you pass.
Went to the local shopping centre today to cancel a pre-order. Lots of people still around. I watched them all bunch up together on the escalator and hold the rails 🤢
Was on the train home and a bunch of little school shitheads were pretending to cough each other and making fun of the situation we live in currently
Took extreme willpower to keep quiet
Took extreme willpower to keep quiet
How do we not have stable IT systems across the board in this day and age. Azure is the most certified in Australian government history, give the systems to Microsoft/Azure and stop messing about you twats. I'd hate to see what a real terrorist threat could do on top of this shit show.