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Morrison said the federal government would provide economic support to Victoria “as soon as that was needed” if the state were to go back into lockdown.
We would look to work with them to provide that as soon as that was needed. We already did that in the last lockdown.
For the first two weeks of the lockdown in NSW it was exactly the same as what we did in Victoria... if Victoria has to go into that situation, lets hope they don’t, we have got models now that move quickly.
We offered to go 50:50 with Victoria last lockdown and they rejected that.
Morrison was asked if he felt NSW should have gone into lockdown earlier. He said:
The NSW government like every state and territory government acts on the information available to them. They went into lockdown on day 11, the Victorian government (in July 2020) went in on day 45.
What NSW is seeking to achieve is no cases infectious in the community. That’s what they’re seeking to achieve right now... it is being designed around understanding what those time frames are.
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