PM announces national framework for sport’s return

BD, no sport is going to be motivated to make decisions on it's agenda by the "nice gesture" concept. That world doesn't exist. In general, most people / businesses are being responsible but the parties that want things to return to normal the quickest are those suffering the most financially. Players are taking big salary cuts & the NRL / AFL are losing large amounts of income. At the end of the day it will largely be depend on professional medical advise & government rubber stamping the restart.

So the headline is misleading - they haven't done anything yet. If ScoMo favours NRL it wont go down well in Victoria where Greens and ALP are close to taking Lib seats in eastern suburbs esp as Albo has discovered he is a Hawks supporter

And neither does Trump. If people cannot see this guy is on the spectrum they are blind. There are some things he is good at and there are other things he needs people around him. He cracks jokes which most others don’t get and take seriously. I am glad he is not the PM of Australia but remember this, people get what they vote for or at least some do. The US voters had, had, enough of the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obama’s- they voted for Trump and this is what they have. Maybe they should have put him into Treasury because he knows how to make money or he employs people who do. The world we knew as strange is getting stranger and perhaps, some of it will free some of us up and we will wake up because the majority have been asleep for years and maybe as a result of cv, we might stop thinking purely about selves and think about others too and about the environment and the animals in it. And bringing back footy will keep people in their lounge rooms hopefully.

Walter we do waste a lot of money, but one benefit is that we don’t replicate the mistakes. Remember Anna Bligh’s state health pay debacle as just one example. Now imagine that playing out in every state at the same time. Or something more serious. What we need is a clear division of responsibilities so that there is no replication of ministries, departments etc. No federally run schools? Good piss off the education minister. No federally run hospitals? Good get rid of the federal health department. On the flip side, air, earth, animals and water don’t understand boundaries. Get rid of state based EPA’s, fisheries departments etc. communism showed us what happens when you centralise everything. It’s a debacle.

DaveJ, are all people visiting relatives and friends getting covid testing before visiting. Are they making special quarantine measures for long periods before coming together? It is special treatment. Because the NRL, the players and the clubs are spending a shed load of time and money making very special arrangements for this season to resume.

This season CDC estimates that, as of mid-March, between 29,000 and 59,000 have died due to influenza illnesses.Influenza has a mortality rate of 0.1%. Covid-19 is 10 times as lethal. If the second wave of infection particularly in the “open” states affects only twenty million people initially. 200000 people will die,to go with the 50000 who have already died. It seems though,that the disease is most dangerous to poor,unwell and black Americans, oh and Democrats,who live in cities and not in the boondocks. Vlandys might have Morrison’s ear but not Murphy’s

Mr Right, point taken but I suppose everyone is focused on football codes. Cricket have the luxury of nothing scheduled and have that extra time to plan things and the situation will probably be more relaxed in a couple of months. I can appreciate that all codes have their own priorities and are taking different stances on when they restart and I have no problem with that but in the interest of every supporting each other it would be a nice gesture. Not sure what state you live in but I'm in NSW and one of my concerns is of the 6700 cases 3000 have been in NSW so to me the risk is greater here than other states yet the NRL want to centralise them here. I want to see league as much as anybody but would prefer a July 1 start when things have settled a bit more.

Unfortunately it appears that this reporter is like Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory. He doesn't fully comprehend sarcasm.

BD, football codes compete against each for sponsorship, TV packages & crowd attendance. Personally I don't believe it should be their priority to reach an agreement on a restart alignment. Their priority should be to adhere to medical & government sign off & put an ethical plan to protect player safety.

Are you copying his "sarcasm" now?

He most certainly is the president your holiness! And unless the Democrats get their act together he will stay that way for a bit longer!

Now you're talking!

You could easily have the body of a Hemsworth mate. Erik Hemsworth...or George for that matter.

Ben , completely agree about the codes working together. The coaches, players from most codes talk and swap ideas, but getting the top level administration to talk is like getting Roar contributors to agree with each other. There should be one common goal to get all sports back together allowing for the proper clearances from state and national health officers and state premier's. This is one time all code differences put aside and work as one.

I understand that at the time how to deal with global pandemic was an unknown in hindsight I'm not sure that a global Lockdown was the best way to go just heard a report that year on year the total number Of deaths in America this year were lower than in the previous year

Just substitute AFL for NRL and they'll figure it out.

Agree in principle. I'd love the removal of states. However, there is no example in the word of democratically direct national rule in a country of the geographical size of Australia. States are unfortunately a necessary evil. America, Russia, India, Brazil, Canada are all federation systems. China on paper is one too. Geographically large nations need it more than they don't. The equal reach of government fails otherwise. I'm sure there can be better harmonisation in certain aspects (education for example) but the removal of states entirely would be challenging.

I was being fecetious. Its hard to convey tone in text

I agree...The CMO's in each relevant state haven't signed off on it yet though.

Approval of immigration status vis a vis residency status in NSW are two separate issues. They need fed govt approval for 30 men to enter the country, not to restart a code. Nice try.