Did anyone hear the intrepid ABC reporter on Christmas Island, on AM this morning? She hiked to the detention centre fence, to interview someone they have been following. I came in a bit late and could just hear the lady saying that 'you just deal with it', but the reporter was concerned the lady's son wasn't going to have a party for his birthday. Then the piece turned serious. The reporter described her own problems, such as having to hike about 15 mins to the fence, than then drive back to town, avoiding ... get this ...
potholes and migrating crabs!
Then we heard from an islander that he wasn't concerned about having the people in the camp ("its not that they have the virus - its just isolation" and then, to hear the other side, a lady who - gasp! - who had heard a story from someone in Perth that someone had moved away from someone in a queue who said they came from Christmas Island! This apparently was worth broadcasting.
Fair dinkum, the whole piece should have been cut and an interview with a doctor giving us some info on, I dunno ... progress on a vaccine, or maybe just their golf handicap would have been more relevant.