There have been failures for which our political leaders should be held accountable but the public discourse has descended into pure viciousness
On Wednesday the ABC published a story that is a fairly straightforward example of journalism. Nicole Clark began miscarrying her four-week pregnancy while trying to get home to Adelaide from coastal New South Wales as the borders shut. She was told confusing advice, turned away from one border crossing and then rung by the policeman to say he had been mistaken, turned away again at another point and sent down 150km of unsealed road before ending up sobbing while in pain as police questioned their movements in NSW.
It’s a story that does not suggest any cause for the miscarriage – they do just happen – but illustrates with a very human face the issues with how border closures have been managed in past few weeks. A standard way to frame a story, used pretty much every day for a range of topics.
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