"We're not going to see the State of Origin this year": Queensland Premier

I remember them but can only picture Saddler, a big strong hard running centre. They both played in the 1967 1st Semi Final loss to Canterbury. Artie Beetson was playing for Balmain and with Eric Simms and John Sattler Aboriginals were beginning their dominance. While tutoring his son, Charles Perkins told me a lot of Aboriginals played soccer because they found the European immigrants were friendly and inclusive towards Aboriginals as they often copped racial ab-use too.

Rob, I have replied to this but it has been removed by the moder8tors. Their is no ab-use but maybe it was because I mentioned Vietnam. It should appear in a few hours.

Most of those things were enjoyed by those who preceded boomers. Free University education and medibank were Gough Whitlam's creations, for everyone, that have been cut down by successive liberal goverments. You seem to have forgotten that we followed Uncle Sam into Vietnam after Harold Holt started singing 'All the way with LBJ' after Uncle Sam killed JFK. As you said "Every generation has usually had things a little better than those before" but the biggest difference is in the 60's we didn't have so many people flying around the world taking holidays.

The mining, technology, construction and Agriculture are the reason any of us have a dollar IMO. The service industry is important but it lives of the money generated by those guys. The sad part is clothing, coffee beans, cups, plates, and most of the service industry rely on overseas resources to make the money off fellow Australians. Hell they even rely on back packer and cheap foreign employees to function.

That's a rubbish straw man argument to make. That would be like saying, "The reserve bank of Australia is representative of 100% of the Australian economy".

I'm not on the bag China band wagon just stating the facts. Doctors over there defied the authorities to warn people to be careful while the govt tried to cover it up.

Sadly point 3 is going to get the most airtime I suspect.

Of course they can be questioned. Services make up over 70% of the economy, mining makes up 8%. I'm pro mining, but keep it in perspective, shut down everything else and mining isn't going to save us.

I mean the NRL as a representative of the services industry, which make a gobsmacking 70% of Australia's gdp compared to the mining industry's 8%.

Fourty Twenty we all want the same thing. i’m just happy to be supper vigilant and of the belief eradication ASAP is better than mitigation because it will take longer. I don’t throw stones at China because they probably didn’t get a good take on the virus for a month just like Italy, Spain, Europe and America. Every government made the same mistake because of the virus incubation and mild symptoms in many carriers. The world knew China had lockdown 50 million and built a new hospital in January. Every country across the world new something wasn’t good and they didn’t hide it because even I knew it. America started the Spainish flu and shipped it across the world killing around 100 million in 1919. They knew it, yet they brought it back with returning soldiers killing 100’s of thousands of their own citizens. Their president had it when the war ended. Pandemics have always possed a threat it’s how governments and it’s citizens deal with the threat that determines the outcome. America are arrogantly not doing that well and blaming not only China but each other. I think China got their s..t together better than most. The media might be policed heavily in China but America’s media has unfortunately got very little credibility.

So "Project Apollo" has decided that all SOO matches will be played in Sydney if the Qld government doesn't come to the party. I was under the assumption SOO was organised by the NSWRL and QRL so it looks as though the NRL overules everything. I'm sure they're trying to go through the back door by bypassing Gladys and going directly to Barilaro.

Yep. I really hope people get on board and do their absolute best with the social distancing. If we can eliminate the virus in the next 6 weeks I’ll be so relieved. I’m really struggling with the, it’s to hard it’s not going to matter, it not going to effect me, I don’t care mob. This is affecting everyone so let’s do our absolute best to get the virus gone. I bought season tickets to a stadium I haven’t even attended yet so I’m getting cranky with the impatient people. It’s not gone just yet and there are still plenty of cases that they haven’t found.

Money before lives is a dangerous thing from a Politically vulnerable position. It is also very expensive having people die then conducting royal commissions, coroners inquests, and getting criminal negligence charges against people in positions of responsibility. That’s why they build those dual carriageways to save lives and the associated cost of continuous hospitalisation and burials.

China lied about the toll and denied the pandemics existence for a long time , allowing it to spread. The fact they did so much wrong but now have it under control is positive. Who is saying we are good to go now? The NRL is planning to start in 6 weeks and if it's no good they don't ''go'' they stop. NZ is planning to lower restrictions next week based on experts recommendations and it's not based on speculation by us non experts on social media believe it or not.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-03/coronavirus-covid-modelling-isolation-chart-data/12118296

Dual carriage ways cost a lot of money and save a lot of lives , it's a fairly simple equation. The risk to lives won't be zero or close to it when the restrictions are wound back because it is the only practical solution. Lives aren't the only consideration and never will be , the economy will always be a factor.

As I said, these are the conversations that would be happening behind the scenes right now. How many die if we stay tight? How many die if we loosen up? And probably most importantly, which option will lead to the most blowback on the government?

Yeah i'm with you. Just thought it was funny when you compared the coffee shop to NRL comp.

I hate that. It's really sad but true that so much of what we have is owned by everyone else in the world. It's a great business model "dispersed responsibility " and one the coalition swear by.

You could've just said the Bruce Highway.