How the hard right brigade howl when confronted with the truth, how they hate it. Julian Hill tells it like it is, the incompetent Morrison government is dragging Australia down. Unfortunate A Labor government in Canberra would only produce a marginal improvement with Albo at the helm.

BTW Hassy criticising Hill for lack of productivity, didn't you spend years breezing around the Pacific, probably at taxpayer expense, playing with big boys toys as a petrol head, and being a non productive Biggles in the non productive military, again at taxpayer expense. Now living on aged welfare at taxpayer expense, like most of the hard right old folks on the forum.

Australians were being left behind since this government was elected
Julien Hill,
Wrong, you weren't even born when Goaf & Co started the rot. Ever since '72 when the unions started to run or rather ruin the Nation, decent Australians have been left behind.
Had it not been for several Coalition Govts in-between to pull the Nation together economically, things would be a lot worse now.
Labor has torn this Nation apart socially, culturally & economically. One could be forgiven to think Labor hate Australia !

Having ticked off all the easy climate-change virtue-signalling, loyal party apparatchik Hill takes great care, not to mention the elephant in the room.

Morrison and Frydenberg have announced that they are going to bounce post-COVID net migration straight back to a huge 235,000 a year, which will smash wages, productivity, and living standards. And Albanese Fake Labor is all for it. They couldn't give a toss what voters want.

Yes Steve! Called it for what it is. Big unions and big business are the masters these deplorable dopes serve. They're invariably all hot air? With the good policies resisted until it's the other guy's turn then they're rolled out as if it was the first time? Ideology rules! And pragmatism can go root itself!

You'd think just one or two would understand that coal, oil and gas are risk-laden and yet keep on trying to hang on like there's no tomorrow? And when they wake up all they've achieved is more rust belt communities!

Come on Hasbeen, a vaccine never stops anyone from becoming a carrier for the unvaccinated and as the flu demonstrates, the conferred immunity may not confer immunity for the new and mutating strains? If you're going to put words in my mouth? Expect a return serve!

In fact, it is the non-vaccinated where these new strains are created as the virus mutates to ensure it survives as many antibody resistant bacteria have, like Golden Staph e.g.

The only way we can stop that from happening, is to stop the spread by roaming hosts/humans. And the only guarantee that we control that is with quarantine that just stops that movement until the virus has run its course. For mine that's island quarantine served by relocatable hospital ships.

And I see no reason why cruise liners cannot be fitted as a fit for purpose, relocatable tertiary hospitals

Moreover, a short sharp hard lockdown invariably stops endless repetitions of partial lockdowns, all of which do more economic damage long term, than we'd do with best practice, NZ example.

Our gold standard was NSW and the Ruby Princess debacle! Followed by lots of hot air and incredible luck!
Alan B.

Dear Hasbeen,

You have just crapped on with: “The so called vaccine does not stop you catching the virus, nor passing it on, so what use is it.”

For God's sake old cock do keep up.

More figures are firming up showing these vaccines are quite effective at reducing infection rates. This is from Lancet regarding the Pfizer dose:

“Hall and colleagues report that BNT162b2's effectiveness against asymptomatic or symptomatic infection was 70% (95% CI 55–85) 21 days after a single dose and 85% (74–96) 7 days after two doses in SIREN. With the intense surveillance protocol, the risk of missing an asymptomatic infection was small. Therefore, SIREN provides robust real-world estimates of vaccine protection against infection, a crucial component to understanding how vaccination can curtail transmission.”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00870-9/fulltext

As to claim “Add to that Israel has published the fact that 46% of those who recently died of the virus were fully immunized when they contracted it.” you still haven't provided a workable link. How about one now.

net migration straight back to a huge 235,000 a year, which will smash wages, productivity, and living standards.
Steve S,
It'd only be really scary if these migrants are the utterly unskilled variety we'll have to support.
If they're of the useful kind who can help get us back on track & stir up the Gene pool then not so bad !
The average Australian, race irrelevant, has proven to be not at all as the hype suggests so, a little new blood would turbo-charge a rather patriotism-lacking mentality towards the Nation as a whole !
Can't wait for Day 1 for the overhaul of this Nation !