Victoria’s health minister didn’t seek advice from the state’s top public health official ahead of Friday’s major decision by Australia’s political leaders toInstead, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton took to Twitter to warn about the ongoing dangers posed by the disease, shortly before national cabinet confirmed that from October 14 Australians will no longer have to stay home after testing positive to COVID-19.
A statement from Premier Daniel Andrews instead said that “Victoria supports the unanimous decision taken today and the continuation of a nationally consistent approach”. Sutton detailed reservations about the mandate being lifted, saying that, even if less than 50 per cent of travellers complied – in line with recent estimates – it would still help significantly reduce transmission.
Sutton said it was up to the health minister whether she wanted to maintain the mask mandates because of their health benefit “particularly for those who do not have other options for travel” or ease the rules “noting the competing issues of national consistency [and] confidence in the rationale and public health benefit as above”.
Sutton continues to stand firm, and fight the good fight.
What an absolute disgrace. A total removal of public health from a pandemic response. History will judge this very badly, the question is, will account be held before the history books have their turn.
Why would they 🤷🏽♂️ why change the approach used for the last 3 years
ITS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY 🤷😵💫
Ckanned The age is a propaganda machine to aid the message of Rupert's LNP puppets.
I don’t think other states and territories did the same thing. So why just mention Victoria?
No shit he didn't. Not a decision motivated by the health and well being of the population.
I never thought this new government would join the LNP 'Killing For The Economy' mob, how wrong I was. Putting money over Austns health is unconstitutional. Perrottet has been the main person pushing for the change, he is not a Christian, he is a killer. SHAME ON YOU ALBONESE.
Victorias Health Minister didnt have a say, It was all Paul Kelly, NSW and Tassie
Why have State CMOs been bypassed? Is it because they would say something that Austn Govt CMO Paul Kelly, the PM and the State Premiers didn't want to hear
97% of deaths from Covid are in the over 65s - if you are over 65 you are 200 times more likely to die from Covid. 28% of deaths in the over 65’s have been due to Covid. If you are over 65 your chances of dying from covid in the next 12 months are 1 in a 100.
Your journos are very confused with facts. Please mandate that they go back to University and learn the basics.
That's not new. Dan Andrews has been telling the CHO what the advice needs to support for years now.
PoliticalCowards PoliticalMongrelism PoliticalMurderers Labor
RichForrest2 Not happy AlboMP MaskUp
Catholic corporate Fascists - Dominic Perrottet, Dan Andrews, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Anthony Albanese
Again, proving The Age is just a Liberal propaganda rag.
Just Victoria’s?
And who did the rest of the Health Ministers consult with? Last week Victoria was accused of lagging behind the rest of Australia because the decision to remove masks on Public Transport was made a few days later than the other States.
These guys have no medical insight and their decisions are disgusting!
For heavens sake is this the Age or the Daily Mail? NONE of the state CHOs had input into this. The advice came from the Commonwealth Department of Health. This reporting is garbage.
None of the CHOs were consulted. Why are you singling out Victoria?
The Age even makes National Cabinet decision an anti Victorian Govt thing - they are relentless (and ineffectual).
'Killing Austns for Businesses + Economy', IS NOT OKAY, its a dereliction of duty to fail to protect the health of Austns under the constitution ! Nat Cabinet is a corrupted body of fools, who hide everything from scrutiny. Where is the health advice for this decision, Albo
I’m appalled at the lack of expert health advice informing the public health response to Covid in 2022. Whilst we’re not post Covid, we are now post public health response & all short term politics & business.
So what? 'Experts' like the VictorianCHO's advice has been sketchy and contradictory at best. Whatever happened to the idea of seeking a second medical opinion when in unusual circumstances?
TonyHWindsor It seems economics played the biggest part of the decision to create a super spreader event nationwide. How many people have to get sick, hospitalised, or die before someone says we might have been wrong?
TonyHWindsor So is Dom going to lock down the eastern wealthy suburbs like he did to western Sydney
Government's sanity ? CMO $800,000.00 plus unlimited sick pay & free rats Comes out with Isolation should be or not to bee taken in Isolation Pandemic, common cold, swine fever, foot & mouth, bee mites, monkey pox Any highly infectious bird flue flying thru air Isolate infected
That would be because it is a state decision. Border control of the state...
TonyHWindsor So DanielAndrewsMP and that pathetic excuse for a Health Minister MaryAnneThomas ignore VictorianCHO BrettSutton advice on Covid response. You’ve lost me DanielAndrewsMP with your crass politically driven decisions. Greens or Independent? 🤔
That’s simply in keeping with the reality that their ‘advice’ was irrelevant to the political decisions to impose COVID rules too. convid
Letting Perrottet rule the day. Only about his budget and his forthcoming election. Didn’t want to keep paying half of workers 5 days’ isolation. Tried to drop to 3days. Unsuccessful but now won no isolation.
SquanderedTeeth I'll bet the AGE came up with this, with a victoria election looming, it stinks of Murdoch and his cronies
TonyHWindsor Partly because you lot bleated incessantly when health officers had all the power and we were locked down
TonyHWindsor It’s what you wanted
MaryAnneThomas told us 2 months ago that she rejects health advice - why are we surprised they listed to the one guy who told them what they wanted to hear. Have you compared CHO advice to the letter? CHO provides actual studies, Kelly provides thoughts.
Good.
SHE never listens to the advice from the CHO. All about the cafe owners. And it is obvious why new pandemic legislation was brought it. It was never the politicians who cared. And funny that the anti everything mob believed it was because he wanted us in permanent lockdown.
Manufacturing News and Outrage for the QuietOstralians
No he got it from the chief medical officer of the ENTIRE country who is a significant pay grade and experience level above Sutton and has access to better information and minds than our small minded Brett Sutton who has playgrounds to close
'doughnut day, covid zero rubbish'... its no wonder they locked him out!!
drkerrynphelps Yeah, well seeking the CHO advice got us locked down play grounds and rubber bullets. We’re good.
What a joke. I have no faith in Kelly
qewperp Multiple VIC Health Ministers have failed to get what was meant to be Australia’s 1st Robotic cancer centre open. Now 9 years overdue ☹️☹️ Our petition - VicPol DTGTO cancer DrTeo
I think it’s time to treat it like the Flu just keep getting your boosters especially if you are not healthy.
Not a Victorian decision but sure make it about Victoria
AnnieMilliken4 To be fair, neither did any of the other states' health ministers. *All* states' chief medical officers were ignored.
hrhmackenzie Where was the health advice to close playgrounds?
People get your head out of the sand. The government scrapping quarantine requirements for ' positive testing' starting this SATURDAY should send alarm bells ringing! The next stage of the agenda is about to begin! Prepare yourself as if ww3 was about to unfold this weekend.
That is because your elected representative voted for that change in parliament. Perhaps our representatives need to be selected a little more carefully.
TeresabDB62 Oh so it is all Victoria’s ( and Dan by implication) fault!?! FFS , why is this a Vic matter?
drkerrynphelps DanielAndrewsMP has long thought himself above both principles of governance and any m deference to expertise. Secret $100b rail project said it all.
'Dropping isolation will increase COVID transmission and result in an increase in serious chronic illness. It could be a mass disabling event and so drive major economic and societal losses.' The Conversation
Photo shows everything Albanese is having his strings pulled by the bully premiers. He really is not up to leading Australia.
drkerrynphelps Why ask the CHO when you know he is going to go all “public healthy” with his answer?
Must be an election soon
_marching_Ents_ Well Costello and his business mates will be happy , this is what MSM have been pushing for years . Looking forward to a Green / independent revolution … time to vote out both the neoliberal parties who prioritise the big end of town.
So disrespectful
You think Dan didn't know exactly what he was doing when he stripped the CHO of power? He knew.
i mean science dam it
Should’ve stopped this tweet after using the word advice as that would sum up the Andrews govt. in a nutshell
Paul Kelly. Not much of a professor imo
Choke holds and rubber bullets will be back, after Dans election thingy. Until then, it’s free vouchers and fast trains for all. Would you like a school with a tunnel ? No probs..
Oh joy. Elections bring out the best in us don’t they?
Sutton was probably off out of action at a b grade celebrity party… self diagnosed claim to fame
She is truly a lightweight since taking on the Health Role down there Thomas cant even sell anything to the public with her poor communication, surely there were stronger choices for the role that could sell a story or policy
Vic election in November. Labor mates, protecting each other. That's all this is.
Newsflash, it was the CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER who lead the decision. Everyone wanted the decision making power taken away from the CHO’s. Well here we are. 🙄
disappointed disillusioned disgusted
When the CHO had the power they complained that it should be those elected making the decisions. Now those elected are making the decisions they cry, what about the CHO.
Hide behind health advice for nearly 3 years. But today not . Corrupt government corrupt premier
SlugGate sutton is about to meet a DictatorDan bus 🤔e
Media and liberals all pushed for it so if it stuffs up it’s no good them complaining.
Still waiting on the health advice for the previous 2 years. What a clown show.
Must be the science 🤷♂️
This whole thing has been about politics.
Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »