Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by 4bee

I wonder if Border Force actually know what their function is?

The funny thing is Immigration used to be pretty good, although I did have to point out to them once that they'd allowed a woman without a passport or with any other checked ID into a sterile area.

I read that one of the 55 who supposedly went to Melbourne according to Border Force was contacted by the Victorian tracing team - in Byron Bay!
And 25 went to Perth, where they were put into hotel quarantine.
Good work Border Force - right up there with the Ruby Princess.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I read that one of the 55 who supposedly went to Melbourne according to Border Force was contacted by the Victorian tracing team - in Byron Bay!
And 25 went to Perth, where they were put into hotel quarantine.
Good work Border Force - right up there with the Ruby Princess.

Big question now is, where else did they get to? Have any tried to or actually entered Queensland?

It seems NZ went 22 days with no community transmission until 1 case was reported today related to a port worker. Outstanding result none the less and demonstrates how well they have the situation under control.

NSW continues to have new cases of community transmission - as does Victoria.

Some would have you believe those returning from NZ should be forced into 2 weeks quarantine on arrival and have their movements tracked by the government, but meanwhile people from NSW can still enter Victoria, as can every one in Australia from other states, no quarantine and no tracking of movements needed.

We manage this risk by having COVID restrictions on what we can and can’t do in Victoria - not by discriminating based on where you come from.

Classic xenophobia by the Victorian Premier to now make a big deal of those coming from NZ but still accepting people from NSW or any other state.

Originally Posted by DiscoDB

Classic xenophobia by the Victorian government to now make a big deal of those coming from NZ but still accepting people from NSW or any other state.

Isn't the point that NZ refused to include Vic in this travel bubble (which is supposedly for the purpose of tourism) because of our outbreak, so it was limited to NSW and NT because they wanted tourists and convinced NZ that they had COVID under control? Wasn't it therefore assumed that they'd stay in NSW and NT? Otherwise what's the point of limiting the arrangement to NSW and NT? And on that basis, isn't it more than a little surprising to belatedly discover that 55 of these "tourists" entered Victoria? Particularly when everything here is in lockdown?

I don't think that Daniel Andrews has been xenophobic - all that I've seen him say that is that the arrivees haven't done anything wrong but that they shouldn't be here. Which is correct.

Re xenophobia:

(a) I don't think that being concerned about unquarantined overseas arrivals turning up here unannounced is at all xenophobic - since it's not that they're foreign, they're just not supposed to have been here at all;

(b) I suggest that you check out what's being said about these people in NZ - quite a lot of anger about their actions, including from people who were waiting to come visit family in Melbourne and are now fearful that Vic will now put up border controls. Is the NZ criticism of the "tourists" - for the same reasons that are being expressed in Victoria - also xenophobic?

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Big question now is, where else did they get to? Have any tried to or actually entered Queensland?

Isn't Byron a southern burb of Surfers?

DL

And either 4 or 5 "tourists" have turned up in Tasmania - amusingly the Tassie entry rules don't seem to countenance people arriving from overseas. Nonetheless, it's reported that they've had to go into quarantine.

Doesn't seem like much of a holiday - 2 weeks in quarantine in Tassie, see the State, back to NSW, back to NZ and another 2 weeks in quarantine.

From the Victorian Governments own website:

Department of Health and Human Services Victoria | Information for overseas travellers

Travelling to Victoria from New Zealand

A trans-Tasmin travel bubble is currently in place between New Zealand and parts of Australia. This allows travellers from New Zealand to arrive in New South Wales and the Northern Territory without having to quarantine for 14 days on arrival.

Currently the Victorian borders are open. If you are travelling from New Zealand and have passed all relevant immigration and biosecurity requirements as established by the Federal Government, New South Wales Government and Northern Territory Government, then you are able to travel to Victoria. You do not need to quarantine for 14 days on arrival in Victoria.

Perhaps no one told the Premier......



Oh and the best bit - this web page was last updated 12 October 2020.