When Jacinda Ardern slammed the panic button and plunged New Zealand into stage four restrictions, the results were a direct contrast to her constant yammering about “kindness” and “compassion”. The “Team of Five Million” quickly found that some of them were being left on the benches in no uncertain terms.
While Ardern’s own ministers felt entitled to visit their favourite beaches, distraught families were banned from visiting dying relatives in hospital.
So very “kind”.
In Australia, pandemic restrictions are similarly inflicting brutal bureaucratic punishment on sick and dying people. While Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszchuk banned a pregnant woman from crossing the border for emergency treatment, she bent over backwards to waive the rules for AFL footballers. In Melbourne, a mother says she was pushed to the brink of suicide after her terminally ill son was left to die alone.
State premiers have let the absolute power they’ve granted themselves during the Wuhan pandemic go to their head. The federal government is growing increasingly frustrated with these tinpot dictators.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says the Queensland government’s approach towards border exemptions cannot continue.
4BC Breakfast host Neil Breen has spoken to a 26-year-old woman who is being prevented from attending her father’s funeral.
Sarah is stuck in hotel quarantine after fighting to enter Queensland, from Canberra, to see her father before he lost his battle with cancer.
Sadly, she didn’t make it.
That wasn’t the end of officious bureaucratic bastardry, though.
But she told, Neil health officials said she shouldn’t even be in Queensland because the exemption didn’t cover her father’s death.
The commonwealth is largely tied by our federal system from preventing premiers turning states into their personal fiefdoms.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is now looking into the case.
“It’s really upsetting and heartbreaking,” Mr Dutton told Ray Hadley.
“I just can’t understand why the government would put someone through that extra grief.
“This young lady, tragically, will be scarred for life.
“It’s got to stop!”
Unfortunately, Palaszchuk’s self-serving megalomania shows no sign of abating – at least, not before the Queensland election in October. In another horrifying case, four young children have been obstinately barred from being allowed into the state to see their dying father. To pile insult onto injury, officious bureaucrats have told the distraught kids that they’re being “selfish”.
Meanwhile, Hollywood stars are allowed to enter the state without even going through quarantine.
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