DENISE CAHILL

“But you know I’m not going to seek to aggravate that situation,” he says.

“I’m concerned about the economic impact, and it’s time to let those borders go down.

“But I’m sure that commonsense will prevail in good enough time.

“The expert medical advice at a national level never recommended internal borders within Australia.”

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt even came out last week saying there is no medical reason for state and territory borders to remain closed.

“At this point, there’ve been no Commonwealth recommendations in favour, there’ve been no national cabinet recommendations in favour and there has been no medical expert panels in favour of state border closures,” Mr Hunt said.

Speaking of national cabinet, borders are obviously the elephant in the room when the group meets and there’s just a lot of border talk behind each other’s backs outside the monthly hook-ups.

Mr Gunner revealed soon after national cabinet was convened that the leaders were in a What’s App group. But it seems the topic of border closures and caravan emojis haven’t made their way in to these chats.

And who can forget the debacle in the west with the livesheep export ship, Al Kuwait, that docked in Fremantle with six coronavirus cases on board.

Premier Mark McGowan fronted the media the day the cases were added to the state’s COVID-19 tally saying he’d only just been told about the sick crewmen.

Twitter was then aflutter revealing an email from the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment to the WA Department of Health informing them of possible coronavirus cases on board … wait for it … four days earlier.

Someone in the health department clearly believed it was fine to send the message via courier pigeon rather than instantly.

Our pollies could have all avoided having egg on their faces by setting up effective communication channels.

Denise Cahill is the Head of News at the NT News