{"id":41333,"date":"2020-05-07T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=41333"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:51:10","slug":"matthew-abraham-calls-out-the-push-to-workaround-a-coronavirus-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/matthew-abraham-calls-out-the-push-to-workaround-a-coronavirus-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Abraham Calls Out The Push To \u201cWorkaround\u201d A Coronavirus Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FIVEAA Breakfast regular Matthew Abraham has slammed a push to \u201cworkaround\u201d a law making it illegal to bar a person\u2019s entry to an establishment if they don\u2019t have the COVIDSafe app.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt told David &amp; Will on Thursday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOne thing that does worry me is we\u2019re now seeing this push.<\/p><p>\u201cFirst of all it bobbed up from the National Hotels Association and now we\u2019re seeing the NSW Business Chamber\u2026 They say the federal government\u2019s being timid in not obliging workers to have this COVIDSafe app installed on their mobile phones.<\/p><p>\u201cWe had the Hotels Association, not in South Australia I don\u2019t think, but nationally, saying we won\u2019t deny you entry to our restaurant or pub if you don\u2019t have the app but we will require you to give us your name and mobile phone number.<\/p><p>\u201cTo me that is just a cute work around of a guarantee that was given and is legislated that it is illegal to require somebody to have the app before you let them work or come into a premises. It\u2019s illegal.<\/p><p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to have these cute little workarounds, well, pardon the French, that\u2019s bullshit for me. You\u2019ve got to observe the spirit of a law not just the law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-41333-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.acast.com\/david-will\/interview-matthewabraham-7may2020\/media.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.acast.com\/david-will\/interview-matthewabraham-7may2020\/media.mp3\">https:\/\/media.acast.com\/david-will\/interview-matthewabraham-7may2020\/media.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVEAA Breakfast regular Matthew Abraham has slammed a push to \u201cworkaround\u201d a law making it illegal to bar a person\u2019s entry to an establishment if they don\u2019t have the COVIDSafe app. Matt told David &amp; Will on Thursday: \u201cOne thing that does worry me is we\u2019re now seeing this push.\u201cFirst of all it bobbed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-41333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will-2","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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