While the break from ‘following medical advice’ was a surprise, the political fallout for the government is likely to be limited
there was no need for pre-flight tests because Australia already had the variant circulating in China., told ABC News Breakfast the government would “take the appropriate advice from the health experts and follow that advice”.
It sounded pretty definitive, but he added: “Our priority is to keep Australians as safe as possible.”that Australia would impose pre-flight tests, leading some stakeholders, including Universities Australia and the Tourism and Transport Forum, to back the government, apparently on the assumption this is what advice recommended.
The problem with Butler’s “abundance of caution” and Albanese’s keeping “as safe as possible” is that many public health experts, including Prof Julie Leask and the Australian Medical Association, noted we don’t seem to be taking the same approach with our own outbreak in Australia.
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