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The Western Australian government doesn't want another cargo ship carrying potentially sick crew to dock in the state but may not be able to stop it.

Crew members the Indonesian ship Darya Krisha, which is currently off Kalbarri and due to anchor in Fremantle as early as tomorrow, are unwell with COVID-like symptoms.

Four of the 20 people on board are sick but testing has not been done.

READ MORE: Two more crew members of cargo vessel docked off Perth test positive to COVID-19

It's suspected this is the fourth ship to sail to WA from Indonesia with positive cases.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan wants to turn the vessel around but that is a call that must be made by the Federal Government.

"Our preference with these sorts of things is that the ship leaves as soon as possible to reduce the risk and set the right example because we don't want the ships coming with infected crew members," he said today.

"Obviously, that's not entirely within our control because there are Commonwealth authorities involved here, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's involved in these things and they're generally of the view the ship should come in."

Genomic sequencing has just confirmed another ship berthed at Fremantle is carrying the highly contagious Delta variant.

Last week the BBC California docked off Perth and at least 10 of its 14 crew members tested positive for coronavirus.

Queensland Health has released a long list of potential coronavirus exposure sites across Brisbane and the Gold Coast after an infectious man travelled north from Sydney.

An infected person visited a childcare centre in Parkwood on the Gold Coast over 10 days, as well as barber shops, restaurants and an adult store.

The alert came after a man, who was identified as a close workplace contact in Sydney, flew while he was supposed to be in isolation and spent more than a week infectious in Brisbane.

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He was wrongly told he had tested negative before he travelled but had been told to quarantine for 14 days regardless of his test result. By the time he was told he was positive he was in Queensland.

It was unclear if the sites were all linked to the one person or whether others had been infected.

Anyone who visited the following venues at the listed times is considered a close contact and must get tested, fill out the online contact tracing form and quarantine until given the all clear by Queensland Health. They must remain in quarantine even after a negative test result.

– Goodstart Early Learning Parkwood 4 Woodlands Way Parkwood:

• 9am- 10am Tuesday July 13
• 5pm-6pm Tuesday July 13
• 9am- 10am Wednesday July 14
• 5pm-6pm Wednesday July 14
• 9am- 10am Thursday July 15
• 5pm-6pm Thursday July 15
• 9am- 10am Friday July 16
• 5pm-6pm Thursday July 16
• 9am- 10am Monday July 19
• 5pm-6pm Monday July 19
• 9am- 10am Tuesday July 20
• 5pm-6pm Tuesday July 20
• 9am- 10am Wednesday July 21
• 5pm-6pm Wednesday July 21
• 9am- 10am Thursday July 22
• 5pm-6pm Thursday July 22
• 9am- 10am Friday July 23
• 5pm-6pm Thursday July 23

Three barbers in Westfield Chermside, multiple restaurants and an arcade are also listed as close contact exposure sites:

• Tommy Gun's Original Barber Shop in Westfield Chermside – 12.52pm-12.58pm, Thursday July 15
• Jimmy Rod's Barber Shop in Westfield Chermside – 12.58pm-1.09pm, Thursday July 15
• Col Naylor Barber Shop in Westfield Chermside – 1.09pm-1.30pm, Thursday July 15
• Healthyworld Pharmacy – Level 1 (located in the Northern Food Court near Woolworths) from 1.45pm-2.10pm Thursday July 15
• Club X Adult Store in Chermside from 4pm-4.30pm Friday July 16
• Xiang Yu Chinese Cuisine Restaurant in Southport, located at Shop 2011/5 Lawson Street from 6pm-845pm on Friday July 16
• Yum Cha Cuisine Shop B10A, Harbour Town Shopping Centre at Biggera Waters from 12pm – 1.15pm.
• iPlay, Harbour Town Unit B2/147 Brisbane Road Biggera Waters from 1pm-2pm
• Nyati Hunting Supplies – Sporty's Warehouse 32 Strathaird Road Bundall 1pm – 1.45pm Monday 19 July
• Niku Ramen at 1015 Sandgate Road in Nundah from 4pm-5pm Wednesday July 21
• Prince of Wales Hotel, 100 Buckland Rd Nundah , 8pm – 9pm Thursday 22 July
• Centrelink Nundah , 1283 Sandgate Rd Nundah 9.45am – 10am Friday 23 July
• Burger Urge , 1231 Sandgate Rd Nundah 9.50am – 10.30am Friday 23 July
• Centrelink Chermside , 18 Banfield St Chermside 10.37am – 10.47am Friday 23 July
• David Jones Men's department – Westfield Chermside Gympie Rd Chermside 10.40am – 11.20am Friday 23 July
• Q Super Centre Chempro Chemist , Markeri & Bermuda Streets Mermaid Waters 2.50pm – 1.15pm Friday 23 July
• Black Swan Coffee – Q Super Centre , Shop B8 Q Super Centre, Markeri and Bermuda Streets Mermaid Waters 1.10pm – 1.35pm Friday 23 July
• Woolworths – Banyo Retail Centre 279 Tufnell Road Banyo , 1.15pm – 2.15pm Friday 23 July
• Hakataya Ramen – Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, Broadbeach Waters, 1.40pm – 2.30pm Saturday 24 July

There are also a number of casual contact sites listed on the Queensland Health website.

Anyone considered a casual contact should self-isolate immediately, get tested and quarantine until they receive a negative test result and complete the online contact tracing form.

Anyone considered a low-risk contact should get tested and self-isolate if they develop symptoms until they receive a negative result.

Another 90,000 doses a week of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are headed to New South Wales but the Prime Minister insists he will not reallocate other states' jabs, saying it would undermine the national vaccine strategy.

Scott Morrison on Sunday announced the extra doses for the virus-hit state, along with 85 million booster shots that won't start arriving until next year.

But the PM pushed back against the idea of forcefully relocating other states' jabs to NSW, saying it would "undermine" the national rollout.

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"No state or territory is immune from this Delta strain of the virus, and we could have exactly the same situation presenting in Perth by the end of, by the end of tomorrow, or we could have it in Brisbane or Far North Queensland," he told The Sunday Project. 

"And the vaccination program needs to work right across the whole country."

He also denied the federation was "crumbling" as other states refused to sacrifice their own jabs for NSW, saying the request wasn't put to national cabinet on Friday.

"This isn't about state parochialism. It's got nothing to do with it," he said. 

"It's got everything to do with applying the vaccines across the country, and as well as in south western Sydney."

A flood of 60 million Pfizer doses has been secured for next year, with another 25 million for the following year.

But they will do little to address the critical shortage that has hamstrung Australia's national vaccine rollout, pushing it two months behind schedule.

"14 million Australians right now are in lockdown because Scott Morrison failed to secure enough vaccines for this year," opposition health spokesman Mark Butler said.

Just 12.6 per cent of Australians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), now urges Sydneysiders to "strongly consider getting vaccinated with any available vaccine", including the AstraZeneca jab.

A comedian who went viral for "predicting" the coronavirus case numbers in NSW has been fined after attending Sydney's anti-lockdown protests.

Jon-Bernard Kairouz, 24, was handed the $1000 ticket at his home in Belmore today after going to the city for the rally yesterday.

He is among dozens who have been fined over the illegal gathering.

READ MORE: NSW Health minister denies 'sting' to uncover TikTok COVID-19 case numbers leak

Mr Kairouz gained notoriety last week with a series of videos where he accurately predicted how many cases NSW Health would announce before the official numbers were released.

Yesterday he was filmed at the protest declaring himself "the people's premier".

Today, 22 men charged with various offences relating to the protest faced court, with NSW Police saying there will be many more penalties to come.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has done a series of interviews with influences on social media platform TikTok

Dr Chant wore a mask as she answered questions about the current health advice, vaccines, and how young people are impacted by COVID-19.

TikTok described the event as "a first of its kind in Australia" and at least 80,000 people tuned in to the livestream on the TikTok Australia account.

READ MORE: NSW Premier insists tougher restrictions 'are working' despite another 141 new COVID-19 cases

The interviews appear to have been pre-recorded with a number of Aussie influencers and then broadcast together.

Dr Chant urged people first and foremost to "follow the health advice" even though it sounded simple and told people to stay at home.

"Change the way you see others," she said, and warned young people "you can be asymptomatic and spread the virus".

One of the interviewers was a Bankstown man with 633,000 followers who runs a food truck and makes videos about burgers and BBQ meat under the username @chebbo.

He asked what young people in south-west Sydney could be doing amid the latest outbreak and current lockdown.

Dr Chant said the best thing to do is stay at home as much as possible to avoid getting sick or spreading the virus to relatives and loved ones.

"Even young people can end up in ICU and die … and you don't have to take it home and impact your family and your loved ones," Dr Chant said.

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OPINION: Australians, stand up. If you are what you think you are, now is the time to prove it.

If you don't, all those grand words about national identity, the Australian spirit, and a philosophy driven by mateship and independence, are meaningless pap.

It's time to show whether the people of this country have been living with a series of jingoistic meaningless clichés or whether we actually do have something innate that makes us stand up and stand out.

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You know the mantra, this Aussie spirit comes out at times of bushfire, war, flood, and any other national crisis that threatens lives.

We embrace a challenge, head-on. We are tough.

You will hear it through these Olympics. The "Aussie spirit" will be invoked in come-from-behind wins and success against the odds.

So is that a myth? Have we been deluding ourselves? If it is true, we must prove it. Now.

What about those Diggers who began to build the nation and the national spirit on the shores of Gallipoli? What about those that followed them in the jungles of New Guinea and can claim credit for helping to save the nation.

What about Mark Donaldson VC, who ran through a curtain of Taliban bullets to pick up a wounded mate and bring him to safety, and has always insisted that is what everybody would do?

What about the volunteer firefighters and emergency service volunteers who get up in the middle of the night, leaving a warm bed to walk into the horror of flames and mangled bodies in car wrecks?

Why do they do it? Not for money, that's for certain.

They do it because of an inbred sense of duty and a determination to help, do the right thing, and die in the process if they have to.

That's the national spirit. So where the hell is it?

It wasn't in the streets of Melbourne or Sydney yesterday where half-witted fools protested against something that is saving their lives. In the process they threatened ours and they were too dim or driven to see it.

It's not at any of the press conferences, as premiers snipe at each other and play indecent political games around what is a battle for the very future of this country.

It's not in Canberra, where the Prime Minister and his team mostly seem driven by political self-preservation and spin.

We are 18 months into this pandemic and political trust has eroded. It doesn't matter which party is in power, nobody is trusted.

So don't look to our leaders. If we are to get through this it is up to us, the real people of this country who I believe do maintain some of that allegedly mythical Aussie spirit.

Look at the broken cafes, handing out free food to those who need it. Look at the $50 notes dropped anonymously into the letterboxes of desperate people. Look at the hundreds of bouquets of flowers anonymously placed in public streets to lift community spirits. That's the real people of Australia and it is a flash of the real spirit we claim to embrace

Perhaps that spirit and sense of national pride can make some of those idiots in the street pause at some stage and consider what it means to be Australian. They will perhaps come to understand that nobody enjoys lockdowns or restrictions.

They will perhaps come to understand that restrictions are the only way to avoid a massive pileup of bodies while we buy enough time to be vaccinated.

And then, I hope, the rest of the country will decide to stand up for their mates, stand up for the future of Australia and recognize that with all the potential (but slight) dangers, vaccination is the only way through this.

Of course there is nervousness, of course there are fears. But as a people and as individuals we need to face those fears and recognize this is the way out.

We are swamped by experts but there are two people worth looking to as we head into this. One comes from the other side of the world from a tiny country used to facing life under threat. The other is a front-line worker in Australia who has lived through the horror wave that devastated Victoria last year.

First, the Israeli PM, Naftali Bennett. He has shown our leaders what leadership is. He made a plea to his nation. No spin, no score-settling, no threats. Just a simple and honest plea. He said, addressing those who were refusing to be vaccinated:

"The science is unequivocal: the vaccines work.

"Those who refuse vaccines are endangering their health, those around them and the freedom of every Israeli citizen.

"They are endangering our freedom to work, the freedom of our children to learn. Those who refuse vaccines hurt us all because if all of us were vaccinated, we would all be able to maintain daily life. "

His message: vaccinate or destroy the country through continued lockdown.

And finally, Dr Stephen Parnis. He is a front-line emergency doctor in Melbourne, a former AMA official, who has lived through the worst of this.

He says we are all suffering degrees of grief, fatigue, loss, and hardship. That, he says makes, us susceptible to bad decisions, like deciding to march in the streets and risk spreading the virus.

"Trauma brings out the best and worst in us," he said "We have seen everything from heroism to blatant disregard for our fellow Australians.

"Division is as much a threat to us as the virus, because it compounds the burden of isolation, increases the likelihood of civil disobedience, and encourages purveyors of whacky conspiracy theories to fill the void left by strong, principled leadership".

The words of both men could be read here as an appeal to the Australian spirit. It is an appeal to take responsibility for yourself and your country.

It is an appeal to live up to that Aussie image: to take it on. To have a go, to face the danger, to fight, to care about your mates, and to do the right thing.

All clichés, I know. But never more needed: Fight through the debilitating lockdowns, follow the restrictions, look after people who need it, and think seriously about getting vaccinated.

Do it for yourself, and your country.

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