SA’s Steven Marshall has sided with Berejiklian and Morrison, saying he was committed to reopening at 70-80%. They’ve both said basically they won’t lift their borders in response.
WA’s Mark McGowan said the modelling is out of date and called NSW’s approach a “catastrophic failure”, The West Australian ($) says. Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk disputed Morrison’s claim yesterday, saying extra modelling had to be done because “it was premised on there being 30 cases in the community”, as The Courier Mail ($) reports. But other state leaders - two of the Labor ones, worth mentioning - are irate. And Doherty Institute director Sharon Lewin agrees, as the SMH reports. Then, Prime Minister Scott Morrison hit back, arguing on Sunday that the starting point (NSW’s high cases) doesn’t change the modelling. Guardian Australia spoke to James McCaw, who worked on our roadmap, and he said that was way too high to abandon lockdowns (in fact, this morning The Guardian reported that under this plan 25,000 people could die). NSW’s Gladys Berejiklian is sticking to this, but daily cases in her state are now above 800. The issue is this: national cabinet agreed at the end of July that once states and territories vaccinate 70-80% of their adult population, lockdowns can effectively become a thing of the past. NSW’s vaccination rate is now one of the fastest in the world, and life could look very different for the vaccinated when the state reaches its vaccination target - thought to be met mid-September, ABC reports.
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