Inside Dominic Perrottet's plan to open up Sydney for summer: NSW Premier pushes for masks to be scrapped in offices and reveals huge incentive for restaurants to open up

Daily Mail (Australia/UK) ^ | 6th October 2021 | Olivia Day

[naturalman1975]

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has promised better things are coming for the state with a new recovery plan to keep restaurants open, bring workers back to their offices and invigorate Sydney's Covid-weary west.

The new leader has vowed NSW will turn a new leaf in coming months as he attempts to steer Sydney out of a gruelling 14-week lockdown.

Mr Perrottet is set to announce a recovery package that will prioritise the needs of business owners and residents in Sydney's west and southwest.

Businesses including cafes, pubs and restaurants that begin to purchase perishable produce will be able to claim the loss of stock if the state is plunged into another lockdown.

Mr Perrottet also revealed he had a 'constructive discussion' with Health Minister Brad Hazzard about ditching masks in a bid to get workers back into CBD offices before 2022.

'There's no doubt masks in an office environment is an impediment for people to come back into town,' he told 2GB's Ben Fordham.

'It's important to get people back into town … there's so many businesses that rely on that foot traffic in Sydney's CBD and Parramatta.'

[naturalman1975]

He has only been in office one day, and there are limitations as to how fast he can move - if he goes too fast, there's a very real risk that the Labor Premiers will take it as an excuse to back down on the deal that is supposed to have the entire country back to normal faster.

But there are already more than a few promising signs.

[ro_dreaming]

Not going to people’s homes and threatening them with arrest for protesting would be a good start.

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Inside Dominic Perrottet’s plan to open up Sydney for summer: NSW Premier pushes for masks to be scrapped in offices and reveals huge incentive for restaurants to open up

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This sounds a bit like the hollow promise an abusive husband makes to his wife to string her along in an abusive relationship; promising he is sorry and didn’t mean to hit her and it will be better now.

[naturalman1975]

The man is a genuine conservative and a staunch Christian.

He’s been in office less than a day and this time last week didn’t expect to be in office. Give him some time.