It’s always difficult to find words for #fortressaustralia border insanity. SA authorities prevented this family from returning home to #COVID19Aus endemic Victoria. Ordered them into quarantine instead 🤯

Watchdog cites COVID-19 response among Australia's most significant human rights issues abc.net.au/news/2022-01-1…

No Premier, the agreement was never 80% 3rd dose. We did our part. You haven’t prepared.

These words.. remember compassion is FREE. Ppl were holding on to so much with this border opening and we shouldn’t have to justify our feelings so u feel morally superior about “saving lives”. All lives are important, not just the ones that u decide need to be saved from COVID.

And so it (re)begins. 20k people who booked flights on Mark McGowan's promise to reopen WA's border on Feb 5 will now be bumped. Perth mother Kim Brown's parents had planned to land Feb 7 to help look after the family after her surgery on Feb 9... latika.me/StrandedWestAu…

The entire world will soon be back to almost normal...... except for WA, where they won't allow you in now, and soon will force people into a permanent quarantine facility. Mark McGowan.... quarantine facilities are a waste of money. Spend it on hospitals instead.

For God’s sake. 500 beds. 14 day quarantine. 20,000 tickets were just canceled. 10s of 1000s more WA based #strandedAussies STILL stuck overseas & interstate. End this idiotic Australian Labor ‘dedicated facilities’ hoax Mark McGowan Anthony Albanese. #loveisnottourism

Anything to say Not ScoMo? In case you've forgotten you're still the PM of Australia. And please say something better than "I don't fly planes". ReconnectAustralia Latika M Bourke Mia Davies MLA PerthNow Parents are Immediate Family Catalina Flórez Perth Today 🇦🇺 The West Australian

Over past 2 years countless pregnant #strandedAussies were abandoned in countries with no entitlement to healthcare & without insurance - in a pandemic. As were terminally ill & disabled folk. Bipartisan National Cabinet got away with it because no #auslaw remedies exist #auspol

In fact we have no idea how many #strandedAussies lives were lost, damaged irreparably or endangered by bilateral wilful negligence from #auspol National Cabinet. This abuse continues & WILL happen again. There’s zero political impetus from either party to bolster #HumanRights

These are extraordinary claims and my heart breaks for my hard-working and talented friend Tegan, who’s been on leave from her job at the Canberra bureau, where PVO is political editor, since June last year. An explosive write up:

Political Editor @Gary_Adshead shares his take on the government’s reaction to today's #COVID-19 cases in three WA schools.

Very useful exercise. Would be good to continue this throughout Australia. We already knew of v high rate of test positivity (approx. 1 in 3 recent PCR tests in Qld were positive). This is more proof that #VaccinesWork and #COVID19Aus infection fatality rate is extremely low

It's February 5 and the borders of WA are down ... 30 years from now. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ash Barty congratulates WA for rejoining the nation. Tomorrow's front page of The West Australian #auspol

The Premier needs to stop playing games w the border. After 2 yrs & the highest vax rates in the world it’s incredible Western Australians are only seeing more restrictions while being locked away from the rest of the world w no plan. #wapol Liberals WA thewest.com.au/news/coronavir…

@GregDore2 And Taiwan is same shade - no excess deaths and did not lock its citizens/PRs & their families out of their country. Australia could have achieved same result. Taiwan launched its massive and very successful tech monitored home quarantine program in April 2020.