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Happy New Year everyone. Hope you have an excellent and pony-free 2023.
 
A lot of talk about the decision by Australia, and other countries, to require travellers from China to present a negative covid test before leaving China.
China is making a big song and dance about how this is a political decision to embarrass China.
But…
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After three years, China announced its reopening from January 8, 2023. Passengers can enter China without quarantine. All you need is a negative PCR result within 48 hours before departure.
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What’s that? To enter China you need a negative PCR?
Talk about embarrassment.
Why aren’t the Australian media, in fact the world media, not pointing this FACT out when reporting Chinas response to our decision on Chinese visitors?
Amazing.
 

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Black_White said:
A lot of talk about the decision by Australia, and other countries, to require travellers from China to present a negative covid test before leaving China.
China is making a big song and dance about how this is a political decision to embarrass China.
But…
www.chinahighlights.com

Travel to China 2025: Entry Requirements, Visas, Tours

Travelers from the following countries could enjoy visa-free entry to China for tourism, business, transit, or visiting friends and relatives: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain...
www.chinahighlights.com www.chinahighlights.com



What’s that? To enter China you need a negative PCR?
Talk about embarrassment.
Why aren’t the Australian media, in fact the world media, not pointing this FACT out when reporting Chinas response to our decision on Chinese visitors?
Amazing.
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Its all there in black and white. Some of the Aussie media I read is pretty anti-Chinese. You can tell it from the adjectives they use to describe people or events. I'm really impressed with the current Government's approach. We don't need to bow down but we don't need to respond in kind. What is the Chinese term - 'reciprocity". Australians are educated, most of China's posturing is about their internal issues.
 
noideaatall said:
Its all there in black and white. Some of the Aussie media I read is pretty anti-Chinese. You can tell it from the adjectives they use to describe people or events. I'm really impressed with the current Government's approach. We don't need to bow down but we don't need to respond in kind. What is the Chinese term - 'reciprocity". Australians are educated, most of China's posturing is about their internal issues.
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Current Government is acting like grown ups. Refreshing change.
 
Black_White said:
Current Government is acting like grown ups. Refreshing change.
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I travelled through China in 1989. Lots of great experiences. I guess they were still recovering from the past, not a lot of small restaurants or culture accessible to a low income traveller but lots of construction happening. Anyway I caught a local train back from a great wall visit to Bejing in bottom class and spent some hours being constantly eyeballed by hundreds of Chinese. I travelled a bit during that time and the only experience that came close was being stranded in a rural Burmese town. Due respect intended; I know China has changed enormously over the last few decades but real cultural change is generational. Economically things may have changed but thirty years ago my experience this was a country of people of pretty unsophisticated people. We may be a young country but as a people I think we are quite sophisticated.
 
Steve Waugh agrees with AB. Cricket needs fresh leadership.

BTW I have always felt that Steve was by far the more interesting human but I'd rather have a beer with Mark.

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Black_White said:
A lot of talk about the decision by Australia, and other countries, to require travellers from China to present a negative covid test before leaving China.
China is making a big song and dance about how this is a political decision to embarrass China.
But…
www.chinahighlights.com

Travel to China 2025: Entry Requirements, Visas, Tours

Travelers from the following countries could enjoy visa-free entry to China for tourism, business, transit, or visiting friends and relatives: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain...
www.chinahighlights.com www.chinahighlights.com



What’s that? To enter China you need a negative PCR?
Talk about embarrassment.
Why aren’t the Australian media, in fact the world media, not pointing this FACT out when reporting Chinas response to our decision on Chinese visitors?
Amazing.
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Rupert is reporting it.



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jathanas said:
Steve Waugh agrees with AB. Cricket needs fresh leadership.

BTW I have always felt that Steve was by far the more interesting human but I'd rather have a beer with Mark.

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Crazy not to use the lights.
As we know, it’s normally dark and gloomy in Sydney, should have the lights on all the time.
 
sideswipe said:
There was a related study on the speed increase in exiting a plane if you stand up as soon as the seat belt light goes off.


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I'm a sheep in these things.

I always tell myself that I won't go with the crowd, that I don't want to be one of those people standing with a tilted neck under the baggage hold for 10 minutes, but then I hear that unclicking of seatbelts and I'm up and wanting to hustle.
 
I stand up fairly early but that’s because I have a bad back and like to stretch out.
 

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Kirby said:
I stand up fairly early but that’s because I have a bad back and like to stretch out.
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My mate is a nervous flyer and gets drunk as soon as he can in-flight (doesn't take sedatives)

He overdid it on a Melb-Syd flight and tumbled forward while exiting

At the time, he was about 170 kegs and got wedged with his carry-on in the aisle

He was too drunk to be useful and it took a pilot to help lift him

The pilot's back is now probably worse than yours
 
WalterBlaknWhte said:
Still raining in Sydney
The Double Bay Coke Matrons are just getting out of bed from NY's Eve
Their interest in cricket ends as soon as the West Indians leave
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Former Australian PMs with harbourside mansions say hi and yes Barbados makes for a nice little family winter break (not quite as much fun in those parts without Princess Margaret though).
 
I received a form from an old account for super that I had to complete and MAIL back to them.o_O

I neither have any envelopes nor stamps in my house.

Guess I will just have to buy a post paid envelope from the post office.
 
Maggie5 said:
I received a form from an old account for super that I had to complete and MAIL back to them.o_O

I neither have any envelopes nor stamps in my house.

Guess I will just have to buy a post paid envelope from the post office.
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One of my recent clients insisted on paying my invoice by cheque which was mailed to me. That was a shock!
 
Important Public service notice.

As it is a new year, it is important to reset your horse at this time, otherwise it may malfunction or, horror of horrors, become a pony.

Please, boop that snoot. it's the only way to be sure.


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*no liability for finger nibbles implied. Bring carrots too, just in case.
 
Black_White said:
Rupert has a paywall.
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Here you go comrade...


Australians will need to take a PCR test ahead of going to China when its borders reopen next week, prompting accusations the communist nation was being hypocritical for condemning countries that are adopting the exact same requirements on Chinese travellers.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior fellow Peter Jennings said he was not surprised about the double standards being displayed by Beijing, after a Chinese government spokesman said the regime was preparing to retaliate against nations that were forcing its citizens to undertake a Covid test ahead of entry.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior fellow Peter Jennings says he was not surprised about the double standards being displayed by Beijing.

“That is very much how they operate, it is always to shift the blame on to another country,” Mr Jennings said.

“We shouldn’t be taking any notice of it.”

Last week, China’s National Health Commission said international visitors would no longer need to quarantine on arrival.

However, the requirement for travellers to take a PCR test 48 hours ahead of arriving in China will remain.

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Jim Chalmers said he was not “not especially” concerned about Beijing’s threats to retaliate against Australia and other nations that have decided to temporarily screen Chinese travellers.

“If they take any steps in response to the responsible steps we’ve taken, then that will be a matter for them. I’m not going to pre-empt or guess what they might do,” the Treasurer told ABC radio.

Dr Chalmers said there was “lot of concern around the global health community and the global economy about the transparency and quality of data that we see out of China on Covid”.

“It’s really important to get as much transparency as we can so that we can understand the implications for us here in Australia,” Dr Chalmers said.

China has hit back at countries that have imposed new travel restrictions following a surge in COVID-19 cases there.

Lowy Institute senior fellow Richard McGregor said China’s threats were probably aimed at the domestic audience and would unlikely amount to much.

“I don’t think, at the moment, this has any large implications for the bilateral relationship,” Mr McGregor said. “There are many countries that are asking this of China and it is not an onerous requirement. The Chinese have been getting tested nearly everyday for over three years.”

The European Union on Wednesday was moving to set co-ordinated control on passengers coming from China, after EU member states France, Spain and Italy unveiled independent testing requirements.

But New Zealand announced it would buck the trend and instead implement a voluntary testing system for Chinese travellers.

New Zealand Science Minister Ayesha Verrall – an infectious-diseases physician – said Chinese travellers posed a ““minimal public health threat”.

“(Chinese) visitors won’t contribute significantly to our Covid case numbers meaning entry restrictions aren’t required or justified,” she said.

Responding to China’s threats of retaliation, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the testing requirement was “an approach that is based solely and exclusively on science”.

Back in Australia, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said the government’s handling of the Covid outbreak in China was “perplexing”.

“It is so perplexing and concerning that Anthony Albanese doesn’t seem to be fronting the cameras or hitting the airwaves himself to explain why they’ve ignored the advice of the chief medical officer,” Senator Birmingham told 2GB radio.

“Why it is that they have flip flopped in their position over the course of the last week or so, and just what the actual rationale for it is, because the story just seems to keep changing.”

GREG BROWN​

 
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