‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament

Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by bb101 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:07AM (#28312403)

A large federally-funded quarantine facility on the outskirts of each state capital would fulfill the need for quarantine that can operate at capacity, whilst limiting transmission. It's not rocket science, but unfortunately it is politics.

The past couple of years have caused me to really become ashamed of being Australian. Being part of an increasingly globalised society, I found the government's blanket dictat of "Australians come home now" to belong to another era. With 4% of its population living in other countries, one would assume they would try harder to not alienate their diaspora.

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by postingawayonhn on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:38AM (#28312600)

It's not rocket science but does require some foresight. Realistically it would take 6 months - 1 year to fully build out quarantine sites that could fully replace hotel quarantine.

If the governments had started on this in March 2020 it would have been worthwhile but these facilities are only just starting to be built now, are too small to entirely replace hotel quarantine, and will be largely redundant by the time they open if NSW and VIC continue on their current paths.

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Re:‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament by tr_user on Thursday August 26, 2021 @05:52AM (#28312702)

You assume there won't be a variant for next year. IMO covid is going to be like the flu.

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