council for LYING about trying to re-home dogs before shooting the animals dead in shocking overreaction to Covid lockdown. NSW is in total lockdown due to a rapidly spreading outbreak of the Delta strain, but the shooting of the dogs has been condemned by animal rights activists and international celebrities. Animal shelter worker Lorraine Knezevic has. One of Australia’s biggest animal welfare charities, PetRescue, says Australians started buying pets in their droves as soon as the pandemic started and the trend has shown no signs of slowing. The decision by a regional council in Australia to shoot dead several rescue dogs due to Covid-19 restrictions has sparked international condemnation.īourke Shire Council in NSW's northwest killed the pound dogs to stop a shelter in Cobar rescuing them as planned, as it believed the travel wouldn't be permitted under coronavirus restrictions.Īmong those euthanised was a dog that had recently given birth to a litter of puppies. Australians are buying thousands of pets each week as devastating lockdowns encourage us to seek extra support from furry companions. About half of the dogs in the shelter were bought during lockdown, with many lacking basic social. Because, from where we are, learning to live with the virus, Boris Johnson-style, looks rather like “learning to die with it”.The decision by a regional council in Australia to shoot dead several rescue dogs due to Covid-19 restrictions has sparked international condemnation. St Giles Animal Centre is currently full with a further 65 animals waiting for a place there. We also need an exit plan and a date to open our borders – but only once global vaccination rates “are sky-high”. Ardern has made mistakes – notoriously, our vaccine rollout is the slowest in the developed world. But New Zealand’s per-person Covid death rate is nearly 400 times lower than the UK’s, unemployment is 4% and our economy recovered more quickly than Britain’s. We Kiwis can be “sleepy little hobbits”, says Max Rashbrooke in The Guardian. When the virus does inevitably strike the islands, “it will kill”. Yet only one in five New Zealanders has been vaccinated. She has already turned the country into a “mysterious socialist hermit kingdom” by shutting borders over the past 18 months. There the “pious and hugely irritating” PM, Jacinda Ardern, imposed the most severe lockdown possible when a single Covid case was found last week. It’s just as crazy in New Zealand, says Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times. Australia must decide how many people it’s willing to sacrifice to “the mortuary or the horrors of long Covid”. Victoria's pet adoption boom hits a decade high at one Melbourne shelter, despite end to lockdown - ABC News Fears pandemic-led pet adoption would be short-lived and see pets dumped are dispelled as a Melbourne shelter sees demand reach a decade high despite workers returning to the office. Were we to open up as the UK did in July and let the Delta variant rip, we’d have 37 daily deaths and nearly 12,000 cases. But instead of giving us “effusive rah-rah talk” about “adjusting our mindsets”, Morrison needs to level with us, says Shaun Carney in The Sydney Morning Herald. Thanks to the “vaccine strollout”, that figure currently stands at just 32%. We need “a way out”.Īustralia will only reach that exit when 70%-80% of the population has been double-vaccinated, PM Scott Morrison said this week. As Clive James once said: “The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many are descended from prison officers.” True, the lockdown has saved many lives – fewer than 50 people have died with Covid this year – but the Australian budget surplus is now nearly a $1 trillion debt. Strangely, these extraordinary restrictions remain popular, says Alexander Downer in The Spectator. Our government’s obsession with “zero Covid” is “destroying us”. A rural council dog shelter put down 15 dogs rather than routinely transfer them and risk “a potential health hazard”. People on the streets in New South Wales have been told not to be “too friendly” to avoid transmission. Sydney has been in full lockdown since June, triggered by a mere 82 cases. “Everything you’ve heard about Australia and coronavirus is true,” says Gideon Rozner in The Daily Telegraph.
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