The Daily Telegraph - 18 07 2020

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THIS was the startling scene at
Broadway Shopping Centre
yesterday, just one of the
Sydney plazas where punters
are flouting social distancing
rules and jamming onto
escalators despite six
COVID-19 cases being
linked to a similar mall.

Not-so-little
shops of horrors

Shoppers pack in at
Broadway (above) and
(right) Stockland Wetherill
Park, which has been linked
to six coronavirus cases.

Weekly cost of NSW going back into shutdown
$1.4B CASH
INFECTION

IT would cost Australia $200
million a day — a massive $1.4
billion a week — if Victoria’s
sickening second wave forced
NSW to shut down and return to
level three restrictions.
The figures came as NSW
Premier Gladys Berejiklian yes-
terday warned of the “devastat-
ing” cost if people failed to stick
to social distancing measures
here.
Fears of new COVID-19 clus-
ters in NSW — separate to the
Crossroads Hotel outbreak —
have led Ms Berejiklian to put
new restrictions on weddings
and funerals just three weeks
after they were eased. NSW re-
corded five new cases yesterday,
bringing the state’s tally to 49.
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and keep all of the plastic you
normally would throw away, like
sauce packets, wrappers, sticky
bottles and takeaway boxes.
“This will help identify what

worldwide each year, much of it in
the form of single-use items like
straws, that end up in landfills or,
worse, oceans.
In its tenth year, the Plastic Free

Saturday, July 18, 2020

No time to waste

beach or buying eco-friendly items
that aren’t wrapped in plastic.
“I gave up cling wrap a while ago
and replaced it with beeswax wraps
and containers,” Ms Elliott-Howery
says. “When we buy grains at the
market, we take our own jars, and
when I’m at the supermarket, I
choose items that come in cardboard
such as tea, oats and pasta.
“We’ve moved over to bamboo
toothbrushes, and deodorant that
comes in recyclable tins, and during
lockdown I started making
homemade mouthwash and cleaning
sprays. It only took five minutes.”
Kate Nelson, author of I Quit
Plastics: And You Can Too, says
reusable items are the best way to get
into the plastic-free habit.
“It’s as simple as a water bottle, a
coffee cup, a set of cutlery and a
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change in household
habits during the
pandemic has shown it
is impossible for families
to avoid plastic.
The extra time at home has meant
more rubbish piling up in bins, with a
rise in food delivery and takeaway
packaging, biscuit wrappers, pasta
and bread bags, paper towel and
toilet paper packaging, plastic bags
and single-use gloves.
Waste from Australian
households has risen more than
10 per cent since lockdown, according
to the Australian Council of
Recycling, with many families
throwing the wrong things in their
recycling bins, especially soft plastics,
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“You know in Europe they call
them Pallazo pants,” said La
Contessa, twirling in a brightly
coloured pair of loose fitting
trousers. “But during COVID
lockdown I am calling them
Terrazo pants because you can
only wear them on the terrace.”
“I believe in Australia we call
them tracky dacks,” said Nick,
shaking a special “investigator’s
martini.”
“Why do you call it an
‘investigator’s martini’?” asked La
Contessa, taking the proffered
glass. “Does it have special
thought enhancing ingredients?”
“After a fashion I suppose it
does,” said Nick. “It always
prompts me to investigate
whether I want another one.”
“Well I hope its prompting you
to investigate young Danny
Jones’s murder,” said La
Contessa. “Do you think Ron and
Lady Arabella Saunders are
involved?”
“The fact that he rode for Ron
as an apprentice jockey and was
killed with the name of one of
Ron’s horses pinned to his chest
is a lot to put down to
coincidence,” said Nick, sipping
his martini appreciatively.
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Mystery surrounding
gardener Danny Jones’
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laundry detergent, dish soap and
body creams.
Pack a travel kit: Bamboo cutlery
and a non-plastic food tray, straw and
water bottle will eliminate the need
for most single-use plastics while on-
the-go.
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shop the bulk aisle at the supermarket

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Weigh the jar beforehand to avoid
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bottles, bottles for shampoo, yoghurt
containers, toys and reusable food
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contributor to microplastic pollution.
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cotton, wool and silk.

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TOGETHER

DANGEROUS LIAISONS

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VIRUS VOW HITS

Crackdown on nuptial
numbers, funerals,
restaurants and cafes

TOTAL CASES

NSW RESTRICTIONS

CASES: NEW
ACTIVE
TOTAL
DEATHS
NSW
5
49
3346
49

VIC
428
2462
5165
32

QLD
0
4
1071
6

WA
2
26
648
9

SA
0
0
444
4

ACT
0
5
113
3

NT
0
2
32
0

TAS
0
0
226
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STARTING FRIDAY JULY 24

No group bookings of
more than 10 people at
restaurants, bars, clubs
and cafes

Weddings and corporate events
are limited to 150 people
subject to the four square metre
rule and must have COVID-Safe
business registrations

Funerals and places of
worship will be limited
to 100 people per
four square metre
rule and they must
be registered as
a COVID-Safe
business

All restaurants, bars, clubs
and cafes need to have
a COVID-Safe plan and
registration as COVID-
Safe business and must
create a digital
record within
24 hours

All weddings and
corporate events
to have a strict
COVID-Safe plan
in place and high-
risk activities like
choir and dancing
are banned

20 guests allowed inside the home and
20 people for gatherings in public
places but the Premier has urged
people to limit visitors to the home
to 10 people as a cautionary measure

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urb where a Victorian man
first spread the infection to his
colleagues.
Authorities were last night
urgently directing anyone who
attended a Thai restaurant in-
side the shopping complex to
self-isolate after three positive
cases were linked to the venue.
IKEA Marsden Park also

sent out a letter to staff that a
worker had tested positive to
COVID-19.
Of the new cases, two were
recorded where the infectious
source was not known.
More than 6000 people
have been contacted because
they are at risk over the Cross-
roads Hotel cluster.

NSW Chief Health Officer
Dr Kerry Chant (pictured) said
there were two to four trans-
mission chains in the Cross-
roads cluster, indicating how
fast the virus spreads.
“I think that highlights the
rapidity and the speed with
which this virus can move
through the community, but

what is pleasing is that some of
these cases have been diag-
nosed while they have been
isolating,” Dr Chant said.
Ms Berejiklian said she was
concerned
about
potential
community transmission that
might have been missed by
authorities so far.
“We need to make sure we

WEDDINGS
and
funerals
have been hit with new restric-
tions only three weeks after
they were eased — and Gladys
Berejiklian is prepared to send
in the cops to enforce them.
Under new rules to stop
COVID clusters “bubbling”
unchecked across the state,
weddings will be limited to 150
people subject to the four
square metre per person rule
and guests must stay seated
and avoid singing and dancing.
Funerals and places of wor-
ship have been restricted to
crowds of 100 while restau-
rants, cafes and bars will be
limited to bookings of no more
than 10 per group and an over-
all cap of 300 patrons.
Previously, from July 1, ve-
nues had been able to accom-
modate as many patrons as
they liked as long as they were
seated and adequately spaced.
The Premier announced
the tougher restrictions would
apply from next Friday and
police would show up without
notice, including at weddings
and funerals, to crack down on
rule breakers.
“Police will be stepping up
their efforts. They will be turn-
ing up unannounced and we
don’t apologise for that be-
cause compliance is key,” she
said. “We absolutely need
everybody seated when they
are in a venue. No dancing, no
singing, no mingling.
“(With) weddings, we have
an expectation that everyone
comes, sits down and stays
seated. That is why there is no
dancing and unfortunately
people have to make deci-
sions about whether or
not they wait or pro-
ceed with existing
restrictions.”
Navarra Venues
chief executive Sal
Navarra
said
the
wedding
restrictions
will “destroy
p e o p l e ’ s
dreams”.

“I think Gladys should re-
sign as Premier,” Mr Navarra
said.
“We are a venue that has
been shut down for four
months then we get to reopen
but then get a cap on numbers
but then pubs are allowed
more people than us when we
are a more controlled environ-
ment. “If she turned around
and said no dancing, I respect
that, but then she said no sing-
ing. How does singing cause
a virus?”
As well as the 10-booking
maximum, restaurants, bars,
cafes and clubs must have
COVID-Safe plans and regis-
trations and a digital record
within 24 hours. Gatherings
inside the home or in public
will remain at 20 people but
Ms Berejiklian pleaded with
residents to stick to 10 people
as a cautionary measure.
With cases across Sydney
rising, NSW Health has an-
nounced the number of con-
tract tracers will be expanded
from 150 to more than 380.
“Our team is agile and flex-
ible, and we increase and de-
crease our capacity based on
need to provide that additional
support to Public Health Units;
this changes depending on
how many infections there
are,” Director of Contact Trac-
ing Carolyn Murray said.
Authorities hope the re-
newed crackdown will nip a
threatened
explosion
of
COVID cases in the bud.
Yesterday,
officials
an-
nounced five new cases in
NSW, bringing the total active
cases since the new outbreak
originating in southwest
Sydney to 49.
C o m m u n i t y
transmission contin-
ued to rise with
authorities reveal-
ing that six infec-
tious
people
went to the
Stockland
Mall
in
Wetherill
Park — the
same sub-

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IT would cost the nation $200
million a day if a massive
COVID-19
relapse
forced
NSW to shut down and return
to level three restrictions.
It comes as Premier Gladys
Berejiklian yesterday warned
of the “devastating” cost if peo-
ple failed to adhere to social
distancing measures.
Leaders have rallied to ask
NSW
residents
to
accept
“short term pain” for long term
gain in a bid to avoid the hor-
ror that is befalling Victoria, as
the state eclipsed 2462 active
virus cases.
Federal
treasury
modelling
estimates
that a return to stage
three
restrictions
in
NSW would cost the
economy $1.4 billion a
week. And NSW trea-
sury modelling shows it
would also halt the ex-
pected
recovery
of
280,000 people returning to
employment.
As the state government
yesterday announced further
restrictions on indoor hospital-
ity venues, weddings and fu-
nerals, industry warned it
could not survive a “seesaw”
approach to lockdowns.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian
(pictured) last night told The
Daily Telegraph: “The cost to
our health and economy if
people fail to follow the rules
could be devastating.”
“Social distancing, good hy-
giene and being COVID-safe
are
not
recommendations,
they are literally life and death.
“The health of NSW is our
first priority, but we must also
protect the economy and live-
lihoods of millions of people.”
Federal Treasurer Josh Fry-

denberg said the nation’s
recovery depended on how
effective Australia could be at
containing virus flare-ups.
“The speed and trajectory of
Australia’s recovery from the
biggest economic shock we
have faced depends on how
effective we are in containing
outbreaks,” he said.
“It requires a full-court
press from the community,
business and our brave front-
line health workers.”
Deputy Premier John Bari-
laro — who alongside Trea-
surer Dominic Perrottet and
Customer Services Minister
Victor Dominello have led the
cabinet push to open the econ-
omy — said the state
must be willing to ac-
cept the “short term
pain” of maintaining so-
cial distancing for the
long term gain of keep-
ing the economy afloat.
“Abide by the restric-
tions now, to protect the
future of NSW,” Mr Bar-
ilaro said. “Victoria is not even
comparable to NSW — Victor-
ia claims to be the education
state, so let’s learn from them.”
NSW ministers are ada-
mant that the state must con-
tinue down a path of reopening
the economy but the govern-
ment is equally willing to
increase restrictions if the virus
gets out of hand.
The government has spent
$2 billion to almost triple the
state’s ICU capacity in order to
have hospital beds to support
virus victims if the state does
sustain an outbreak.
Wes Lambert, chief execu-
tive of the Restaurant and
Catering
Association,
said:
“The restaurant industry can
only take so many punches
before it goes down for the
count.”

Premier’s
plea to
protect
economy

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EDITORIAL PAGE 32
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WEDDINGS

NOT QUITE A
PUBLIC BAR
AT CAMDEN

Kieran Pollett from the Royal Hotel
Kieran Pollett from the Royal Hotel
Camden checks in customers safely.
Camden checks in cust
Camden checks in cust
Picture: Gaye Gerard

A WATERING hole southwest of Sydney
has barred out-of-towners and unsuper-
vised adults under the age of 21 in a set of
hard line measures to protect their patrons
against COVID-19.
Young revellers treating The Royal
Hotel Camden as a “schoolies week” hub
have triggered the changes as the owners
work to safeguard the town’s oldest pub,
which was built in 1841.
Owner Martin Sinclair said the unruly
youngsters had been causing chaos in the
family-friendly pub with managers left to
chase them around to make sure they re-
mained seated. Physical fights have erupt-
ed when some have been asked to leave.
“I just don’t feel younger people are tak-
ing note of what’s going on at the mo-
ment,” Mr Sinclair said. “We’ve had an
influx of younger people in the venue
treating it like a schoolies holiday.
Only people from Camden will be al-
lowed into the pub and punters aged 21
and under will be shown the door unless
they are accompanied by a parent or
guardian. Mr Sinclair — who has previously
managed The Mean Fiddler and Camden
Valley Inn — said he was happy to fight any
potential discrimination battle on the new
rules. “These are unprecedented times
and if this is going to help stop the virus (it
is worth it),” he said.
“Camden is now literally surrounded by
positive cases. My concerns aren’t really
about discrimination of the entitled youn-
ger years, as opposed to providing the saf-
est possible venue.”
Camden Park man Anthony Gordon
gave the new policy his approval.
“I come here all the time with my family
and the measures are very sufficient, from
my point of view.”

DANIEL MCGOOKIN

contain this virus. We need to
make sure we get on top of
any potential hot spots or any
potential community trans-
mission that might be bubbling
away under the surface,” she
said.
“We also have a couple of
cases that still have unknown
sources … and that worries us,

that could be linked to the cur-
rent cluster or new clusters.”
Ms Berejiklian slammed
residents who had been com-
placent in recent weeks, urging
everyone to follow the rules.
“Sometimes when you look
around and see the way people
are ... you would think we are
on a different planet. We are in

a pandemic,” she said.
Australian
Acting
Chief
Medical Officer Dr Paul Kelly
warned Sydneysiders against
using the weekend for a last
hurrah before restrictions are
tightened.
“The fact that those restric-
tions will come into place in
those areas of southwest Syd-

ney next weekend is not an ex-
cuse to have a huge party this
weekend. This is a very
dangerous time.”
He described the rising
number of cases in Victoria as
“disturbing” but predicted that
yesterday’s figure of 428 new
cases in the state was not “the
peak yet”.

The Saturday Telegraph witnessed
major crowds in plazas across the city
yesterday as authorities told anyone
who attended a Thai restaurant in
Stockland Mall Wetherill Park on five
different days since July 9 to get
COVID-19 tested immediately and
self-isolate for two weeks.
NSW Health said three cases had
been linked to Thai Rock, including a
staff member who worked at the res-
taurant five times between July 9 and
last Tuesday and two customers who

dined at the restaurant on July 10.
The authority said a total of six peo-
ple had recently attended Stockland
Mall Wetherill Park while infectious.
Meanwhile, Westfield Hurstville
Shopping Centre staffers have put up
signage telling customers to social
distance, but The Telegraph still saw
individuals sharing communal dining
tables while eating lunch in an en-
closed food court area yesterday
afternoon.
Multiple people were sharing one
circular communal table when a fam-

ily of four arrived and began eating
food while standing in the enclosed
area. Teens, families with toddlers
and people on their own were also
seated on other tables nearby.
Software worker Peter, 26, of
Hurstville, was seated at the circular
table and said he felt safe.
“It’s not too cramped,” he said.
“(The shopping centre) looks pret-
ty normal … (there’s) less seating.”
A
spokeswoman
for
Scentre
Group, which owns Westfield Hurst-
ville, said “to help our customers

maintain the recommended physical
distancing while in our centres, we
have implemented seating restric-
tions in food courts.”
In Broadway Shopping Centre in
Glebe, dozens of customers were pic-
tured jammed together on escalators,
seemingly unaware of the risk of virus
transmission.
A spokeswoman for Broadway
Sydney said multiple measures had
been implemented to safeguard
against the bug, including installing
sanitiser stations and increasing

cleaning. “We acknowledge that as a
community we still have a way to go
— we continue to ask for the ongoing
support of our community in main-
taining social distancing and support-
ing our hygiene standards,” she said.
Meanwhile in Castle Towers
Shopping Centre in Castle Hill, peo-
ple were also packed onto escalators
and crowding in large numbers while
waiting to purchase food. Castle Tow-
ers centre manager Eddie Paynter
said signs throughout the premises
told people to keep 1.5m apart.

Trouble in store as customers cram into major shopping centres

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THERE’S a little slice of
Victoria camped at Tweed
Heads, just south of the
Queensland border.
Every second number
plate at the Boyds Bay
Holiday Park is blue and
white. Some are stuck, some
are in quarantine and others
have decided to holiday in
NSW instead of Queensland
as planned.

Martin and Karen Coyne
from Inverloch, Victoria, were
on their way to the Sunshine
Coast. It’s a yearly trek to
avoid the Victorian winter,
but they are now stuck for at
least 14 days.
“When we got into NSW,
we had to apparently do 14
days penance for being
Victorian,” Mrs Coyne said.
“We have been delayed at
the border. We had hoped to
get across, but under the new
rules we have to stay 14 days

in NSW, apply for a permit
and hopefully we can cross
the border to go to the
Sunshine Coast,” Mr Coyne.
67, said. Mrs Coyne, 67,
added: “If we can’t cross we’ll
just enjoy the area here.”
Most of those camped in
Tweed Heads are under the
impression they only have to
prove they have spent 14
days in NSW to gain an
exemption pass to cross the
border, but advice on the
Queensland COVID hotline

says it is at the discretion of
the border force. Since July
10, more than 500 vehicles,
carrying about 850 people
have been refused entry.
For the last 17 years, Ray
Crichton, 81, from the
Mornington Peninsula has
spent three months at the
Tallebudgera Caravan Park
on the Gold Coast, but
Queensland’s border closure
is a gain for NSW.
“We could not go because
of the border closure, so we

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AUTHORITIES fear more
Victorian will die after the
state recorded a staggering 428
new coronavirus cases — the
worst daily rise in all of Austra-
lia to date.
Three Victorians — a man
and a woman, both in their
80s, and a man in his 70s —
also died, taking the state’s cor-
onavirus death toll to 32.
Of the state’s new cases, 57
were linked to known out-
breaks, one was in hotel quar-
antine and 370 remained
under investigation.
The Saturday Telegraph
can reveal that Victoria’s coro-
navirus cases have doubled to
5164 in just 12 days.
It took 160 days for the
state’s case tally to climb from
the first case in a returned trav-
eller on January 25 to 2536 by
July 4. But the total toll has
now doubled in less than a
fortnight amid Victoria’s disas-
trous second wave.
Chief Health Officer Brett
Sutton said the soaring case
numbers were “both disap-
pointing and concerning”.
“We have not turned the
corner here,” Prof Sutton said.
“There will be dozens of in-
dividuals who will require hos-
pitalisation from these 428
people. Tragically there will be
several who require intensive
care support and a
number of people
will die. So it has
to turn around.”
There were
last night 122
Victorians
in
hospital,
in-
cluding 31 in in-
tensive
care,
p r o m p t i n g

Health Minister Jenny Mikak-
os to declare “we are in the
fight of our lives”.
New testing facilities have
been opened in regional Vic-
toria, amid growing concern
about the virus’s creep outside
Melbourne.
There are 42 cases in re-
gional areas — up from 11 a
week ago — including eight in
Geelong and seven on the
Mornington Peninsula.
“We’re keeping a close eye
on regional Victoria and, while
the numbers in regional com-
munities have been lower,
we’ve recorded about 42 cases
since July 1,” Ms Mikakos said.
“We are keeping a close eye
and monitoring the data on a
daily basis and it is important
for regional Victorians to not
become complacent.”
Authorities yesterday rec-
ommended regional Victorian
wear masks when in public
when they are unable to physi-
cally distance.
National
Acting
Chief
Medical Officer Paul Kelly
said Australia had ticked over
to 11,000 cases but urged peo-
ple to “be patient” amid Victor-
ia’s outbreak.
“It does take time because
of the biology of the virus, be-
fore these types of restrictions,
and the isolation of cases and
contact will demonstrate that
we are starting to get on top of
the situation in Victoria,”
Professor Kelly said.
It comes as residents at
33 Alfred St — the last
remaining housing com-
mission tower to remain
in a hard lockdown —
prepare to be released at
11.59pm today.
The
unprecedented
lockdown has stretched
after dozens of cases
were recorded in
residents.

Victoria’s
chief health
officer Brett
Sutton.

SHANNON DEERY

DOCS PUSH STAGE FOUR
THE Australian Medical As-
sociation is demanding the
Andrews Government im-
mediately introduce stage four
coronavirus restrictions, say-
ing waiting longer risks seeing
hospitals overwhelmed.
With more than 400 cases
recorded in a single day,
AMA Victoria president Ju-
lian Rait said stage four re-
strictions should have been
introduced “yesterday”.
“I don’t think we can af-
ford to wait,” Prof Rait told

The Australian. “I think we
should
embrace
harder
measures and if we are wrong
we can lift them earlier.
“If we were to see 1750 cases
per day for 10 days that would
overwhelm our hospital sys-
tem and exceed our capacity.”
Prof Rait said while some
people described the spike in
coronavirus cases on Friday
— an increase of 428 — as
“disappointing” but he said
the AMA would describe
them as “catastrophic”.

Ruby bosses fight ‘baseless attacks’

THE Ruby Princess operator has
told an inquiry that the cruise
ship’s captain and senior doctor
have been subjected to “baseless
attacks on their honesty by senior
public officials.”
Carnival Australia condemned
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian,
Police Commissioner Mick Fuller
and federal Home Affairs Minister
Peter Dutton over reports they
suggested the liner’s staff may have

lied to port authorities about
whether there was COVID-19 on
board before the ship docked in
Sydney.
Barrister David McLure SC
urged Commissioner Bret Walker
SC to find that Commodore Gior-
gio Pomata, Dr Ilse von Watzdorf
and the vessel’s port agent person-
nel acted with integrity in all of
their dealings with government of-
ficials.
He took special aim at the
state’s top cop for publicly stating:

“At no time did I find COVID-19
like symptoms mentioned any-
where in any of the paperwork
from Carnival or the Ruby Prin-
cess” before 2700 passengers dis-
embarked at Circular Quay.
In a May episode of the ABC’s
Four Corners program, Mr Fuller
questioned whether there was “an
honest response from the ship —
whether that’s the captain, the
doctor or the crew — in relation to
the health of the ship as it was
coming into the port of Sydney.”

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TRUMP & SCOMO DEBRIEF
THE ongoing coronavirus
crisis and boosting Australia’s
defence capability amid in-
creasing global uncertainty
were key topics in a discus-
sion between Prime Minister
Scott Morrison and President
Donald Trump yesterday.
The pair spoke by phone
yesterday morning, where it is
understood they compared
notes on managing COVID-19
and the need to safely reopen
their economies.
Mr Morrison updated Mr

Trump on the Australian
government’s 2020 Defence
Strategic Update and com-
mitment to building Austra-
lia’s
defence
capability,
including in partnership with
the US.
They also discussed co-or-
dinating approaches to multi-
lateral organisations and their
commitment to open markets
as well as a range of Indo-Pa-
cific issues including working
more closely with our South-
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vaccinate 20 million people at once.
Using the test, we can prioritise
those people who are at high risk.”
Dr Allman said the test would
also be useful for frontline workers
with heightened exposure to the
virus and a risk-based approach
could lesson the need for state-
wide lockdowns.
“People who test as extremely
high risk —they could quarantine
for an additional period of time,
for example, instead of the whole
state being in lockdown,” he said.

Gene-ius idea to save the vulnerable

DEEP-DIVING
into
genetics
could be the secret to better man-
aging COVID-19 as Australia
waits on a potential vaccine.
An Australian company Gen-
etic Technologies is creating a
polygenic risk test for coronavirus
that can separate those who are
likely to get only mildly ill from
COVID-19 from those whose gen-
etic makeup puts them at a high
risk of being hospitalised.

The company has been work-
ing on genetic risk tests for the
past 10 years for different diseases
and launched the first ever test
that could determine people’s risk
of breast cancer.
Genetic
epidemiologist
Dr
Richard Allman said the test
would use a simple mouth swab.
“The test can determine if you
will be hospitalised from COVID.
I’m quite optimistic that there will
be a vaccine but (even) if a vaccine
is developed, the truth is we can’t

ANGIRA BHARADWAJ

came here instead and we’ll
stay here, it’s just as nice, he
said.
Robert and Rosie Maye
from Berwick have been out
of Victoria since July 4 and
have extended their stay at
Tweed Heads to do their
quarantine before heading up
to Hervey Bay next week.
“We chose to stay longer
here to qualify to get across
the border, the 14 days
required, but we are happy to
do it,” Mrs Maye said. But the

rules keep changing.
“You have to go online and
get a pass so we did two days
ago, but now we have to get
another pass because it
changed yesterday.”
Mrs Maye has compiled all
her receipts to prove the
couple have not been in
Victoria since Queensland
banned them from entering
when the border opened to
NSW on July 10.
“We can verify we left
Melbourne before the whole

thing happened,” she said.
Arthur and Beryl Ross
from Watsonia had booked
their regular trip to Elliott
Heads near Yeppoon but
have been stuck in Tweed.
“We can’t get any further,
we’re not going,” Mr Ross
said.
Caravan parks in
Brunswick, Chinderah and
Brunswick Heads have been
inundated with Victorians
waiting to cross the border
into Queensland.

Andrew Illingworth from
Tweed Holiday Parks, which
runs seven caravan parks in
northern NSW, said the
border closure to Victorians
had been a boon for the local
economy. “There are a few
here waiting for the border to
open and staying longer than
usual. Those who would
normally stay one night have
stayed longer and they did
not realise the Tweed had so
much to offer. For us it has
been really good,” he said.

MORE than 150,000 vehicles
have travelled between Victor-
ia and NSW in just over a week
as health authorities vowed to
strengthen the permit system
to try to halt the march of Mel-
bourne’s virus outbreak.
Chief Health Officer Dr
Kerry Chant said the avail-
ability of exemption permits,
which accounted for most of
the travel, was likely to be
tightened. She said changes
have already been made to
give her team greater access to
audit people with exemptions.
“There has been some
strengthening and changes to
the permit system structure to
obtain more information to
allow us to audit. But clearly
the principal advice is that we
want to reduce to a minimum
the number of people coming
from the hotspot area and Vic-
toria overall,” Ms Chant said.
“We do need to have some
exceptions for critical services
or people who are seeking
healthcare that can only be
provided in some of the facili-
ties in New South Wales be-
cause we have to, because it is
the right thing to do.
“But we want to send a
strong message that we do not
want people to be abusing the
permit system and we will be
trying to strengthen the permit
system so it reduces to the ab-
solute minimum to those criti-
cal workers that we need to
keep the system going.”
A NSW Police spokeswom-
an said the vast majority of
permits seen by officers at the
Victorian border since the
closure were for cross-border
residents, people providing
critical services and those with
freight or commercial permits.

Police data shows 269 vehi-
cles have been denied entry
into NSW for not having a
valid permit.
Mick and Pauline Kelly,
both aged 80, live in the Vic-
torian town of Peechelba near
Albury and were not allowed
into NSW because of the
COVID restrictions.
“They said we could not
cross the border because (we)
did not have a permit,” Mr
Kelly said.
“Normally we can get over
there, but now we can’t.
There’s a lot of confusion. We
would like to go to Albury.”
Transport Workers’ Union
of NSW state secretary Rich-
ard Olsen urged government
authorities to allow freight
workers to keep a critical per-
mit as they performed “crucial
roles across the country”.
“Each and every week there
are thousands of freight move-
ments, driven by essential
workers, transporting essential
goods,” he said. “We are seek-
ing assurances from the gov-
ernment that truck drivers will
remain supported throughout
the road and transport system
in their home state.”
Mr Olson said freight em-
ployers should ensure their
workers are protected from the
deadly virus.
Operation Border Control
Commander Scott Whyte said
police were manning the bor-
ders 24 hours a day. “We are
dealing with a police operation
that is dynamic and constantly
evolving, and police are con-
stantly assessing the operation
with a view to being flexible
with our resources on the
ground,” he said.
Last week a 34-year-old
man was charged after attemp-
ting to cross the border into
NSW near Corowa.

Tighter
travel
permits
looming

CARLA HILDEBRANDT
& GEORGIA CLARK

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Fake death
threat case

A WOMAN has admitted to
faking death threats against
herself in an attempt to have
another woman investigated
by police.
Police said Emma Elizabeth
Arnold, 30, claimed to have re-
ceived a written death threat
and a box of items at her St
Marys home.
Based on her reports, police
arrested a 51-year-old Blaxland
woman in August last year and
issued her with an apprehen-
ded violence order.
But CCTV footage and
phone
evidence
showed
Arnold was behind the threats.
She pleaded guilty and will
be sentenced at Parramatta
District Court on August 20.

NEW details have emerged
about the $12.5m fraud case
brought against controversial
mining magnate Clive Palmer
by the Australian Securities
and Investments Commission.
Mr Palmer (pictured) faces
up to five years in jail after the
financial watchdog charged
the 66-year-old with fraud and
dishonest use of his position as
a company di-
rector over the
funding of his
Palmer United
Party.
ASIC alleg-
es
that
be-
tween August
5,
2013
and
September 5,
2013 Mr Palm-
er dishonestly obtained a ben-
efit or advantage for Cosmo
Developments Pty Ltd and/or
the Palmer United Party.
It’s alleged Mr Palmer auth-
orised the transfer of $10m con-
trary to the purpose for which
the funds were being held.
It also alleges that, between
August and September in 2013,
he dishonestly obtained a ben-
efit or advantage for Media
Circus Network Pty Ltd and/or
PUP by authorising the trans-
fer of $2,167,065.60.
Mr Palmer has previously
slammed the accusations as
having “no merit”.
The matters were first men-
tioned in the Brisbane Magis-
trates Court on March 20 and
heard again on Friday.
It was adjourned until Au-
gust 28.

Big funds
in Palmer
allegations

HAYDEN JOHNSON

DAD FIGHTS OFF
JAWS OF DEATH

A TASMANIAN fisherman
has described the moment a
10-year-old boy was pulled
from a boat and attacked by a
shark as a “freak accident”.
The boy — from Tas-
mania’s northwest — was
rushed to hospital with head,
chest and arm wounds after a
shark ripped him from a fish-
ing boat and into the water
yesterday afternoon.
Ambulance Tasmania said
the boy and his father were
on board a six-metre vessel,
5km from shore off Stanley,
when a shark pulled the child
into the deep.
But the boy’s father jump-
ed into the water to help his
son, at which point the shark
swam away.
The boy was taken to the
North West Regional Hospi-
tal after suffering lacerations
to his arm and other cuts to
his head and chest.
He remains in a stable

condition. Just hours before
the attack, police had warned
of a large shark off the coast
near Stanley.
Fisherman Steve Hursey
said it was a “freak accident”.
“It’s just unheard of,” Mr
Hursey said.
“I’m 28 years old and have
been fishing all my life and
never have I even seen a
shark here, let alone a shark

attack. We don’t normally get
them up here.
“I have heard of shark at-
tacks occurring before but
have never heard of anyone
being pulled out of a boat.”
Mr Hursey said he was
told the shark caused damage
to the boat, which led him to
believe the shark must have
been more than three metres
in size.

Circular
Head
mayor
Daryl Quilliam said the shark
attack had been the “talk of
the town” yesterday after-
noon. “It’s such a rare event.
I’m not aware of any other
shark attacks that have ever
occurred in our district,” Mr
Quilliam said.
“Thankfully
the
father
jumped in to save his child,
and the boy is now in a stable

condition,” he said.
Mr Quillam said he ex-
pected the Stanley commun-
ity to rally behind the boy and
his family.
“Circular Head residents
are good at looking after each
other,” he said.
“We had a road tragedy
here last weekend, and some-
one told me they were
amazed at how much support
was shown to the family after
that incident. This shark at-
tack will be no different. It
will be a traumatic time for
the boy and his family so we
will help them out.”
The incident comes amid a
flurry of shark attacks along
the east coast this month.
Mani Hart-Deville, 15, was
fatally mauled near Grafton
while Matthew Tratt was
killed spearfishing off Fraser
Island in Queensland.
NSW
resident
Anika
Craney survived an attack in
far north Queensland on
Tuesday.

JAMES KITTO

A great white shark, and (above) the damaged fishing
ishing
A great white shark, and (above) the damagged fi
boat and the historic village of Stanley in Tasmania.

Mani Hart-Deville, 15, was
killed surfing at Wooli Beach,
near Grafton, last weekend.

Matthew Tratt, 34, was
killed spearfishing off Fraser
Island earlier this month.

Anika Craney, 29, was bitten
swimming off Fitzroy Island
on Tuesday.

RECENT SHARK ATTACKS

RSL fined over pokie addict’s death

THE suicide of a pokie addict —
who gambled more than $3.7 mil-
lion in just two years — has
prompted authorities to hit a
Sydney RSL club with a record
$200,000 penalty.
Gary Van Duinen, 45, took his
own life in June 2018 after a losing
streak on the poker machines at
Dee Why RSL. The Cromer build-
er’s body was found near Narra-
been Lagoon six days later.
The NSW Independent Liquor
& Gaming Authority (ILGA) or-

dered the club to pay $200,000 in
fines and costs after Mr Van Dui-
nen’s death revealed its “irrespon-
sible gambling practices”.
ILGA also placed extraord-
inary special conditions on the
club’s licence, including, for the
first time, an around-the-clock
marshall to monitor gaming areas
for signs of problem gambling.
In another first, it also ordered
the RSL to set up a third-party
exclusion scheme so family and
friends of a problem gambler can

apply to have the person banned
from the club.
A Liquor and Gaming NSW
investigation found the club’s
conduct was “likely to encourage
the misuse and abuse of gambling
activities”. It found the club gave
Mr Van Duinen special treat-
ment as a “diamond member”
while ignoring his serious gam-
bling addiction.
The RSL said it was in the pro-
cess of reviewing the decision.
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LEGENDARY racehorse Winx
will be honoured with a new $42
million stand to be built in her
name at Royal Randwick.
The Australian Turf Club was
given approval this week to build
the Winx Stand, which will be
two-storeys tall and have capacity
for 7500 patrons.
It will also feature a link bridge
to the adjacent Queen Elizabeth
(QEII) Grandstand — the main

grandstand at the racecourse
where Winx finished her glitter-
ing career with her 33rd straight
win.
The NSW Department of
Planning has fast-tracked the
project to help create jobs and
boost the economy in the wake of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The development will im-
prove the ongoing use of the race-
course and promote it as a world-
class racing venue by significantly
enhancing the amenity for pat-

rons during race-day events,” the
approval determination stated.
“The development will provide
a range of benefits for the region
and the state as a whole, includ-
ing a capital investment value of
$41,926,000, creation of over 150
full-time jobs during construction
and approximately five full-time
jobs and 50 casual jobs during
operation.”
The stand can also cater for
functions, corporate events, exhi-
bitions and student examinations.

Grandstand finish in honour of a true turf legend

An artist’s impression of the Winx Stand.

GARY HAMILTON-IRVINE
AUCTION ACTION
LARGER houses in Sydney’s Canter-
bury-Bankstown area, lower north shore
and other pockets close to the CBD have
been getting the best results at auction
since the COVID-19 crisis began.
Auction clearance rates in these areas
were the highest in the city over the past
three months, with three in four auctions
producing a sale in the suburbs of Cre-
morne, Leichhardt and Revesby.
Auctions also delivered stronger re-
sults in Wollstonecraft, Bondi, North
Bondi, Elizabeth Bay and Alexandria,
where about two thirds of auctions were a
success, according to CoreLogic.

police arrested Waters as he was leav-
ing the garage about 20 minutes later
and cautioned him in relation to the
supply of illegal drugs.
The documents state after his ar-
rest police seized a massive 1381g of
powerful party drug MDMA in the ga-
rage, which is worth more than
$275,000 on Sydney’s festival and
nightclub scene.
Officers also found at least 145g of
cocaine — worth $43,000 — in the
garage and more than $100,000 in
cash, which police say was earned
through the supply of drugs.
Police searched Waters’s house on
Veterans Parade in Collaroy Plateau
and found black knuckle dusters and
four designer watches including a
Rolex, which police suspected were
the proceeds of crime.
Manly Local Court magistrate Mi-
randa Moody released Waters on bail
after his then-girlfriend put up a
$50,000 surety and his grandparents
handed over the title deeds to their
home.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Adrian
Walsh previously told a court a full-
time custodial sentence was justified.
“(It) involves significant quantities
of prohibited drugs; if convicted it’s al-
most certain the accused would serve
a full-time (term) of imprisonment,”
he said.

Cop bugs
expose
pool man
as dealer

A RIPPED pool business owner who
loved flaunting his wealth on Insta-
gram was secretly running a drug
operation worth hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars out of a Manly garage.
The inside story of how Aaron Wa-
ters was brought undone and charged
by police over large-scale MDMA and
cocaine supply can now be revealed
after he was committed for sentence
in the Downing Centre District Court.
The 27-year-old, who once posed
for a photo on a horse wading in the
ocean, is facing the possibility of a
lengthy jail term over a string of seri-
ous offences including supplying pro-
hibited drugs and recklessly dealing
with the proceeds of crime.
Before his arrest Waters was not
averse to showing off his money, shar-
ing dozens of photos of his luxury life-
style, including overseas travel, to
more than 22,000 of his Instagram
followers. He also had a soft spot for
his pet dog, Louie, and captioned a
photo saying “this little man puts a
smile on my face everyday”.
However, away from the camera
Waters also heavily invested his time
in Sydney’s underground drug trade.
Agreed facts state detectives began
covertly watching Waters, of Collaroy
Plateau, in early 2019 and discovered
he rented a lockup garage on Manly’s
East Esplanade, located about 200m
away from the affluent beachside sub-
urb’s popular wharf.
Police officers snuck into the ga-
rage just after midnight one night and
found a big bundle of cash, one kilo-
gram of a brown “rocklike” substance
in a Ford Mondeo and scales, before
they
planted
recording
devices
throughout the premises.
The bugs captured Waters in the
garage donning a pair of latex gloves
before weighing and packaging a
“white powdery” substance.
With enough evidence gathered,

EXCLUSIVE
DERRICK KRUSCHE

Aaron Waters.

MICHAEL Clarke and new
girlfriend, fashion designer Pip
Edwards, have arrived back in
Sydney after a romantic holiday
in Noosa.
The couple were looking
rested and relaxed as they
strolled through Sydney Airport
on Friday with Clarke’s four-year-
old daughter Kelsey Lee.
The duo were not afraid to
flaunt their blossoming love on
holiday, where they stayed at

friend Anthony Bell’s house and
engaged in public displays of
affection.
It marks a stark difference to
their behaviour when they were
first romantically linked back In
February.
At the time the former
Australian cricket captain had
just announced the end of his
seven-year marriage to Kyly
Clarke, the mother of his
daughter.
Edwards, co-founder of
sportswear label P.E Nation,

denied any romantic connection,
telling The Daily Telegraph they
were just business associates.
However in June, Clarke, 39,
confirmed the relationship to
The Sunday Telegraph, but,
would not go into details saying:
“It is private and it is personal
and I do want to be respectful to
everyone who is involved — my
family, Kelsey Lee’s mum and her
family.”
Edwards, 40, has a 13-year-
old son, Justice, with designer
Dan Single.

KARLIE RUTHERFORD
PUP BACK FROM ROMANTIC PIP STOP

Pip Edwards
Pip Edwards
and Michael
and Michael
and Michael

Clarke, with his
ke, with his

daughter
daughter

Kelsey Lee, at
Kelsey Lee, at
sey Lee at

Sydney Airport
Syydney Airpo
p rt
Sydney Airport
after a holiday
er a holiday
er a holiday

in Noosa.
in Noosa.
in Noosa

Picture: Matrix

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