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The NSW Police Minister says a group of north beach residents who blatantly violated lockdown rules to attend a wedding reception committed a “bastard act.”
Twelve people between the ages of 19 and 63 were fined after going to the reception in the city center of Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia on Sunday, despite orders implemented after a cluster of coronaviruses was found in their local area. .
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The NSW Police Minister says a group of north beach residents who blatantly violated lockdown rules to attend a wedding reception committed a “bastard act.”
“It’s just a bastard act,” David Elliott told the Nine’s Today Show.
“You have been living in an area where there has been a group … and now everyone at that wedding has to worry if they have been exposed to Covid-19.”
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The minister warned that the police can fine or imprison people who break the rules and pointed to a series of “shameful acts” of “blatant disregard” of health orders during the Christmas holiday period.
Meanwhile, the federal government is looking at whether it can deport any of the people who participated in a big party in Bronte on Christmas Day.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he was taken aback by the scenes.
“Absolutely under the Migration Law, if someone is threatening public safety or health, their visa can be canceled or revoked. Certainly the federal government is looking into that issue,” he told 2GB radio.
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Sydney Bronte Beach on Christmas Day.
The Department of Home Affairs will work with New South Wales authorities before New Year’s Day to make sure people are doing the right thing, he says.
“We are very happy to deport people if they flagrantly disobey public health orders.”
Sydney residents have mostly been banned from viewing the famous New Year’s Eve fireworks after the city’s harbor tides closed for the first time.
This includes the government’s plan to house Covid-19 frontline workers, including healthcare workers and teachers, on the East Coast Thursday night.
The state government is telling people to stay home and watch the shortened seven-minute show at midnight to usher in 2021 on television.
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Sydney NYE fireworks.
The northern beaches will start 2021 at home after New South Wales authorities extended stay-at-home orders.
However, small indoor gatherings will be allowed on New Years Eve and New Years Day.
NSW registered five new local cases of Covid-19 on Sunday. Four are connected to the Avalon cluster which now totals 126 cases.
The fifth is related to a previously reported case on the northern beaches whose source of infection remains under investigation.
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Northern Sydney beaches are blocked as a cluster of Covid-19 cases continues to grow, prompting other Australian states and territories to impose travel restrictions.
The government says stay-at-home orders for residents of the northern beaches north of the Narrabeen Bridge will continue until at least January 9, while the blockade for the southern part of the peninsula will remain in effect until January 9. January 2nd.
“While we see the trends moving in the way we expect, there are still too many worrisome aspects … of not really being able to identify what we call intermediaries, those unrelated cases,” said Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
Restrictions for Greater Sydney and the New South Wales region are largely unchanged for New Years Eve, barring restrictions around the harbor, but outdoor gatherings in Greater Sydney have tightened to a maximum of 50 people, compared to 100.
