Under the proposed definition no "close contact" can now arise other than from domestic contact.

My understanding is that no "close contact" can be declared as a result of work or consumer exposure.

This doesn't make sense. A very substantial amount of transmission has been as a result of exposure in work and consumer settings.

Deeming something not to be what it actually is always has a purpose.

In this case it seems the intention is to keep the consumers out and about and the workers on the job; even when they shouldn't be according to all previous medical advice.

Congratulations to Ray Goodless for his refusal to accept the generally accepted view that we are the 'goodies' and that China and Russia are the 'baddies' - nothing could be further than the truth ("Australia's guilty of human rights hypocrisy", The Daily Advertiser, December 28).

If we believe the nonsense emerging in the USA then we really do deserve what we get.

In his book A Fat Lot of Good, Dr Peter Bruckner details the length that the sugar industry went to in order to deceive us into believing that sugar is completely blameless.

In this book, Dr Bruckner details the efforts that the USA vested interest largely successful to date and establishing the SRF Foundation to counter the adverse publicity that was embarrassing it at the time.

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you the SRF was founded and funded by Coca Cola Amatil - surprise, surprise!

So keep up the good work Ray and whilst I'm at it congratulations to The Daily Advertiser for letting him say it. l don't think that would have been the case a decade or so ago.

St John's Wort is listed as a noxious weed but if you drive along Vincent Road and Inglewood Road you could be forgiven for thinking it was a sown crop.

This raises the question what organisation is failing to carry out its duties?

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It's hard to imagine a PM more different to Scott Morrison than Jacinda Ardern. "The ditch" has never looked wider. Unlike Morrison, Ardern can be trusted to deliver.

She has real compassion and integrity and is determined that 2022 will be "heavily climate change-focused".

And unlike Australia, NZ sets "climate budgets the country must meet".

Should Anthony Albanese be elected it will be heartening to watch the two like-minded Labor leaders work together.

Australia needs a fresh start after perhaps one of the most poorly-governed periods in our history.

The world needs effective climate action. Bring on 2022.

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