Appearing Tuesday morning on the Today Show, Shorten said, “Well, the reality is it should be one in all in. What destroys morale in a community is not just being locked down yourself, but a sense that there’s two sets of rules in this country.” “When we hear examples of some people getting special treatment and others not getting that treatment, that really wrecks the whole sense that we’re all in this together,” he added, in response to a plan by the state government to trial pub reopenings in suburbs with low Covid case loads.Shorten’s comments backed in the position of state Labor leader Chris Minns who on Monday said “you can’t have a situation where one third of Sydney is under curfew but you can go and get a rosé on the northern beaches and north shore it’s just not fair.”The former Labor leader has been increasingly vocal in recent weeks about the need to re-open Australia. A fortnight ago, along with Hunter backbencher Joel Fitzgibbon, Shorten publicly backed in the Doherty Institute modelling behind the four-phase National Cabinet plan, essentially forcing opposition leader Anthony Albanese to throw his support behind it as well.On Monday, however, the opposition leader appeared to walk back from the plan, suggesting that 12 to 15 year olds might need to be included in vaccination targets, and not criticising the Tasmanian government for suggesting that they might disavow the deal and set a 90 per cent target for reopening.
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