❓ Mrs. Harvey asks the Premier to immediately extend isolation restrictions to include all personal interstate travel, based on medical advice. The Premier outlines the complexities and potential negative impacts of such a measure, promising to raise the issue at the National Cabinet meeting.
AnsweredQoN 152Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
CORONAVIRUS —
INTERSTATE TRAVEL
152. Mrs L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I note the recommendations from the
tertiary hospitals medical leads advisory board. Will the Premier immediately support the recommendations of the health experts
and doctors on the frontline of the coronavirus fight ''by extending isolation restrictions to include all personal interstate travel''?
INTERSTATE TRAVEL
152. Mrs L.M. HARVEY to the Premier:
I note the recommendations from the
tertiary hospitals medical leads advisory board. Will the Premier immediately support the recommendations of the health experts
and doctors on the frontline of the coronavirus fight ''by extending isolation restrictions to include all personal interstate travel''?
AnswerView source ↗
Later
today I will be joining the national cabinet meeting with the Prime Minister
and the other Premiers of Australia and a range of things will be
discussed. I will ensure that I raise that issue as part of that conversation
with the Prime Minister and the other Premiers. The Chief Medical Officer of
Australia, Professor Brendan Murphy, will be part of that meeting and will be
providing advice on that and a range of other issues. I will ensure that that
issue is raised.
I urge Western Australians to
ensure that they do not travel to the east unnecessarily or to places where
there is a prevalence of the coronavirus. I want to outline to the house the
implications of closing the border with the eastern states. A range of Western Australians
need to go east to obtain medical advice and medical attention and have operations and the like. It would impact the
supply of important medicines and provisions for Western Australia. It would impact and stop the supply of important
goods coming from the east, including a great deal of our fresh food . It
would disrupt and stop the supply of Kleenex tissues and toilet paper to our
supermarkets in Western Australia. It would severely disrupt the mining
industry in Western Australia, a number of whose employees live in the east and
come to the west. It would disrupt a range of markets that our goods go to in
the east because obviously once a truck driver, a train driver or the like take
goods to the east, they cannot come home.
Obviously at a personal level, a range
of Western Australians might have elderly parents in the east who might be sick
or dying and we would be telling those people they cannot go and see their
family members. All I am saying to members is that although it might
superficially sound like an easy thing to say or do, there would be severe
implications for all Australians and all Western Australians were we to attempt
such a measure.
today I will be joining the national cabinet meeting with the Prime Minister
and the other Premiers of Australia and a range of things will be
discussed. I will ensure that I raise that issue as part of that conversation
with the Prime Minister and the other Premiers. The Chief Medical Officer of
Australia, Professor Brendan Murphy, will be part of that meeting and will be
providing advice on that and a range of other issues. I will ensure that that
issue is raised.
I urge Western Australians to
ensure that they do not travel to the east unnecessarily or to places where
there is a prevalence of the coronavirus. I want to outline to the house the
implications of closing the border with the eastern states. A range of Western Australians
need to go east to obtain medical advice and medical attention and have operations and the like. It would impact the
supply of important medicines and provisions for Western Australia. It would impact and stop the supply of important
goods coming from the east, including a great deal of our fresh food . It
would disrupt and stop the supply of Kleenex tissues and toilet paper to our
supermarkets in Western Australia. It would severely disrupt the mining
industry in Western Australia, a number of whose employees live in the east and
come to the west. It would disrupt a range of markets that our goods go to in
the east because obviously once a truck driver, a train driver or the like take
goods to the east, they cannot come home.
Obviously at a personal level, a range
of Western Australians might have elderly parents in the east who might be sick
or dying and we would be telling those people they cannot go and see their
family members. All I am saying to members is that although it might
superficially sound like an easy thing to say or do, there would be severe
implications for all Australians and all Western Australians were we to attempt
such a measure.
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