You wonder, who could it be? Are they a tourist? You can drive this road faster than this! You're holding us up! They can't be a local.

Helen Haines bringing up this committee review in parliament (while coronavirus is still here) will slow us from getting this $1500 job-keeper money. The slow car should pull over already.

We hear of people complaining about being locked up in their ship's cabins or hotel rooms for two weeks and of others who complain bitterly saying the most angst is caused by not knowing when the uncertainty will end.

Well give a thought to those refugees who have been locked up on Manus and Nauru for years and for others held in detention centres (eg Broadmeadows) for interminably long periods of time. They simply arrived by ship seeking our help. Luckily most Australians overseas or stuck on ships are not being treated this way, their uncertainty is short term.

And let us not forget those who were brought to Australia for medical treatment who have now been locked up in a hotel room for several months (about seven or eight now I believe) in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.

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They have not been allowed out and some have not received the treatment they were sent here to get.

One may argue those on ships have cause to be worried because the virus may spread and kill them. To those I would say so too does detention. The crowding into one hotel makes them much more susceptible to catching the virus.

Additionally, we have had several suicides due to the anxiety or not knowing there is a future, and many more attempted suicides, even by children. Another detainee was hit and killed by a rock and another died of infection simply by being refused treatment for a simple cut on his leg.

I urge people to use some of their spare time to ring/write or email their local member, the Prime Minister or Peter Dutton and ask for this cruel treatment of human beings end.

In view of the problem of a late football finish and cricket getting a start in October, I wonder whether as cricket starts with a twenty20 competition, a double header where you play a twenty20 game followed by an Ovens and Murray senior game under lights would work.

At that time of year, players are training for both and you would also be getting a different demographic of supporter for both codes.

Just a thought.

Is Tim Quilty's assertion that it's okay to fish and hunt based on his medical or epidemiology qualifications? If not, his time would be better spent in not creating confusion within the population in the time of current fatal health crisis.