General
Has WA made a unilateral declaration of independence?
I remember the good ol’ days in March 2020 when we were told Western Australia would go into a short sharp shutdown to curb the spread of COVID19. It’s now mid-October, and while things are mostly business-as-usual inside WA, interstate travel is still largely restricted.
Why?
Well, I’m not altogether sure – and Premier Mark McGowan is getting nowhere near the national scrutiny directed at Daniel Andrews or Annastacia Palaszczuk.
As early as July, WA Chief Health Officer, Andy Robertson, gave evidence in the Federal Court that there was a less than 1% risk of COVID19 returning to WA from travelers arriving from states and territories which had no community transmission.
Most of the country is now COVID-free…
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