CORONAVIRUS — RESTRICTIONS
363. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. I appreciate
that the Premier has said that the government is relying on health advice to explain some of these inconsistencies.
Would the Premier be willing to table that health advice in Parliament
so that the public can be more aware of the basis for the decisions the
government has made?
Mr M. McGOWAN
replied:
We published the health advice last week. It was published on
my Facebook page. A statement on the advice of the Chief Health Officer was put
out, so we have done that. Each of the six states and two territories have a chief
health officer. The federal government has a Chief Medical Officer, I think he
is called, and a couple of deputies. They do
not always agree. The Chief Health Officer of Western Australia has at times
given us more cautious advice and at other times more progressive advice
than has the Chief Medical Officer of Australia or the chief health officers of the other states and territories.
Sometimes that is related to the rate of infection within a state, but the very,
very clear advice we got from the Chief Health Officer is that the border with
the east is important for protecting our citizens. I know the Liberal Party
wants to bring it down, but that is not our policy.