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psychojoe said..hardpole said..psychojoe said..FormulaNova said
What are human rights? The right to travel on an airplane? The right to have a holiday somewhere? The right to go to Melbourne for a visit to family and then come back when it suits?
Yes! Exactly! As stated here in article 13 of the universal declaration of human rights.
Correct we should be allowed to move within our
state borders. We did have internal movement limitations inside WA for a few days/weeks at one time. I did a 20,000km caravan trip during that period, did mean I didnt enter NSW or Vic (or Tas) but wasn't actually a huge inconvenience. I dop remember meeting a few NSW/Vic people who were just staying out of those states and driving in "circles" as they didnt see any point in going home. For me the biggest decision was to come back to WA via the north or south entries. Chose south as that wasnt as much doubling up. Just doubled up on the bit between Mt Isa and Tennant Creek.
In Victoria, I wasn't permitted to go to Bunnings because it was 6 kms from my address.
Well, I have to agree. The term 'state' really infers country when looking at the United Nations human rights stuff, but I don't think there is actually an accompanying definition. Even within WA, people were stopped from travelling to other regions within the state at one point in time.
But it's academic anyway as Australia could have an emergency event and change or suspend all sorts of things. If that's not enough for you, refer to Clive's attempt to enter WA. He couldn't and he can afford way more lawyers than I can. If his lawyers couldn't argue about freedom of movement successfully, what chance would you have?
Victoria was pretty heavily locked down, which I had to witness as workmates told me their only excursions were to Dan Murphy's. WA was surprisingly open but we still had distance limits at times, which some people sort of ignored when they went to their favorite sailing spots. It didn't bother me as my local is a couple of hundred metres away and funnily enough relatively busy.
Sort of funny in hindsight having to wear a mask out to the water's edge, then removing it and kiting for a few hours, putting the mask back on to then get to the car.
But, back on track, to see and read about these restrictions and then complain about them later is pretty lame. I was in a situation where I moved to WA before Covid in late 2019, and then had the house in NSW empty. It's not like I moved during Covid and then complained about my house being empty.
Psychojoe, you did this, and you knew the rules, so why would you then complain so much about your rights? Knowing that the rules were in place before you moved? I wasn't happy about losing a lot of money either, but plenty of people had it worse.