In contrast to some of my colleagues, I am optimistic that Victoria will not be swamped by new cases of the COVID-19. My modelling indicates that we are doing a good job of containing this pandemic, and we can look forward to a graduated return to work and socialising after the current restrictions expire in mid-May.

Medically, I hope that we will resume all planned operations in the near future.

Now is a good time for all Australians to work out what a level playing field looks like and start to play on it.

Public sport is clearly not as important as public health and at a time of pandemic it is an affront to the efforts of medics and nurses working on the frontline to consider smuggling NRL team the Melbourne Storm across the Border to maintain the fantasy that it's "business as usual".

Many other religious leaders were appalled that the prime minister deemed Easter services in religious buildings "workplaces" to enable live-streaming from churches.

Special treatment, exemptions and little deals are on the national hard drive but they put everyone at risk. This is not "a storm in a teacup".

Rebooting national values and political accountability will find Melbourne Storm staying on their side of the Murray and making the welfare of fellow Australians the main game.

It is great to see that the Australian government is listening and implementing the advice of the health scientists and that this continues after we are through COVID-19 and that they continue to listen and implement the advice of scientists both in health and climate.

Watching Question Time in the Australian Parliament during these times is unique with our representatives putting people before themselves and i hope that this unified voice continues after COVID-19.

However I am afraid that once the pandemic is over the Australian Parliament will revert to their "usual tricks" and stop listening and implementing the advice of the scientists. I hope I and Barrie Cassidy are wrong?

For all the doom and gloom around about the Coronavirus, it surely has a delivered a glorious silver lining.

In just a few weeks, unnecessary red tape around business and personal life has been wiped. Surely, we as a community should be insisting that the bureaucracy that has been removed from our lives stay away forever.

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