Where’s Michael Healy?

OVER the past few months we have been assailed with much wisdom from Member for Cairns, Michael Healy, on social distancing, personal hygiene and the great job the government was doing in containing COVID-19. But now, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her entourage refusing to contemplate opening of our border with NSW and further refusing to consider opening up regional Queensland, he is strangely silent.

Mr Healy, you come from the tourism industry. You must know the depths of despair into which it has fallen.

You must know the number of cases has fallen to almost zero with many days passing before a case is reported (The last was yesterday but is considered not contagious).You must know the medical profession is most willing to work with the tourism industry in establishing protocols to ensure public safety.

Mr Healy, you say you have clout in the portals of power in Brisbane.

Well Mr Healy, use that clout to leverage the opening of regional borders at least, so that what has already been earmarked for the outback region in stage two can be allowed for the wider north Queensland region from Mackay north to Cairns and west to the Northern Territory border.

If it can be done for one region, it can be done for others as well.

Dennis Quick, Fishery Falls

ED’S NOTE: Mr Healy took some time off last week to attend his father’s funeral. 1933: Australia claims one-third of

Antarctic Continent.

1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley marry in the Dominican Republic.

1997: Australian Prime Minister John Howard (above) makes an unexpected personal apology for the stolen generation of Aboriginal children but backs away from a formal government apology.

2003: The World Health Organisation reclassifies Toronto, Canada, as an area with recent local transmissions of SARS. 2017: Brisbane’s most notorious cold case is solved with Vincent O’Dempsey, dubbed the “Angel of Death”, found guilty of the 1974 murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters.

2019: Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces his new ministry as the coalition begins its third straight term of government.