J bowyer....SPOT ON. lets get back to reality and common-sense.

Too bloody right he should lead more. he has busily been balancing economic imperatives over human lives and it needs to stop.

Daniel Andrews in Victoria and Mark McGowan in WA are showing the kind of front foot decision making we needed from the PM but didn't get.

Rudd was very much ahead of the game while this bloke is playing catch up constantly.

Another island country Taiwan, through vigorous and timely action, despite hosting over 2 million chinese tourists a year and having a population nearly the size of Australia has managed to keep the confirmed cases under 60. Australia is already 6 times that number and accelerating.

Pitifully inadequate response which will undoubtedly cost Australian lives.

Memo to Australians: panic less, think more & start being responsible instead of blaming the Govt for your own inadequacies !

It really is time to grow up a bit SR.

If they don't take into account the economic results of any policy they could ruin hundreds of thousands of lives by sending business broke, or by business closing, leaving millions of workers with no cash flow to pay the rent/mortgage buy the food, or pay the car or credit card payments.

Just closing schools would destroy so many lives as working mothers have to stay home with the kids, destroying families cash flow, & probably their economic futures.

It will be a pity if many of us old timers catch dose & lose the battle, but so many lives could be ruined by an overly ambitious shut down of business, that is a chance we may have to take.

No matter what action the government takes, we know ratbag lefties will try to use it against them. Hopefully real people will see through the blabber by types like you & see you for what you are.

'Rudd was very much ahead of the game while this bloke is playing catch up constantly.'

Oh the guy that took over the economy with a surplus and wasted billions
The guy that showed 'compassion' by opening up the borders leading to 1300 plus drowning and about 70000 illegal immigrants.

The guy sucking up to the UN declared climate change as the worlds biggest moral challenge and then ditching the idea of a carbon tax.

The guy who was elected as one of the most popular politicians in Australia's history only to be tossed out by his own party in less than a term.

A guy who has become so delusional and bitter since his demise that he is only matched by Turnbull. And lets not forget pink batts, clunkers, school halls.

What a hero he is to you SR.

TTBN. It sounds so easy to just let it all happen and try to protect those at risk, whilst producing more hospital beds and medicines.
Problem with that is, bugger the beds, we don’t have enough hospitals and we especially don’t have enough ventilators, based on figures from overseas. So, if we see a spike in cases, doctors are going to have to prioritise who gets the ventilators and I guarantee, it won’t be us old folk, it will be the young people who get them.
This appears to be what has happened overseas, with a massive demand for ventilators and not enough to go round.