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8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

Testing times for the second Covid Christmas

Those like me inclined to whinge about Europe’s reaction to Covid are regularly stopped in our tracks by Australia’s much more hysterical response — though that always gets the Twitter reaction ‘compare the death tolls, mate’.  But it’s hard to believe things like the brutal decision by Premier Mark McGowan to deny entry to a Victorian couple whose 20-year-old son died in WA can happen in Australia.

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