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Originally Posted by MITCHAY
For anyone that is interested these are official provisional arrival stats for Australia for November and December and it is quite clear that NSW is doing the heavy lifting while taking shots from everyone else.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/in...latest-release |
It should flatten out once Vic starts to take its full quota again. There is some sort of agreement with Tassy, where Tassy will quarantine Vic arrivals, and Vic will quarantine pacific islanders arriving to help with rural farmers, so Tassy numbers will start to rise. How good is it to see states working together even though they are from opposite political parties?
Vic and NSW will always bear the brunt of incoming overseas arrival numbers, because thats just the route the airlines take. When Vic had the 2nd wave, there was an article that mentioned that they were taking in 50% of international arrivals during that period, I don't have stats to check though.
The thing is, everything was chugging along nicely, no one was taking pot shots at each other, until GB had a crack at the QLD premier. Have noticed NSW doesn't like to be lectured to but loves lecturing others. Always plays the victim. All I can say is, its quite telling that very rarely do any of her colleagues in other states ever publicly come out and back her comments. It is so political now, it will be very hard to get a national consensus on border and outbreak controls, unfortunately.