A fellow columnist, Matthew Parris, quotes an imperishable account of the lockdown by a Times reader: “middle class people hiding and working class people bringing them things”. No wonder that some in the first tribe romanticise what has been the definition of a necessary evil. I keep thinking...
I see. So there's a "national plan" that every single state and territory is interpreting in its own way, and you believe the problem is with them rather than the "national plan"?
Seriously puzzled by this fixation with Andrew Barr given that the ACT is the fastest vaccinating jurisdiction...
That does however nicely address situations such as an airline starting new routes during a pandemic in the hope of benefitting from government subsidies.
No. A citizen is a citizen is a citizen. People just need to mind their own effing business. And the government's inability to get citizens and permanent residents (of all descriptions) "home" needs to be seen as what it is: a complete failure.