Spring is well and truly here and the week has provided a number of warm days. Footy is this weekend up to the final round of the home and away season and the days are getting longer. Perfect time to get out the bbq and have everyone…oh that’s right, bugger. Still in lockdown.

The new case numbers are getting lower and the 14 day average has dropped below 50 new cases per day. Today has been the best result in a long time with just 14 cases. There was an outbreak in the Casey Local Government Area (my LGA) with 34 cases attributed to 5 linked families who were actively breaching the rules of stage 4 restrictions. With that outbreak included the new case numbers from Monday 14th September 2020 to Sunday 20th September in Victoria were; 37, 39, 32, 27, 42, 22 and 14. Regional Victoria have had their restrictions eased and there has been a fine introduced of about $5000 for people caught travelling from Melbourne Metro are to regional Victoria.

Case numbers everywhere else remain low and Queensland is finally opening their border to residents of the ACT. For my opinion there needs to be constructive work done between the states to open up travel to more areas that are safe to travel from. The stubbornness shown by state premiers is not helping Australia at all.

In other news, people’s desire to travel and in particular fly was perfectly demonstrated when Qantas sold out a flight in 10 minutes that is to fly from Sydney to Sydney. It is a sightseeing journey taking approximately 7 hours that will head up the coast as far as Airlie Beach in Queensland and then fly to Uluru before returning to Sydney.