By CHARLIE MOORE, POLITICAL REPORTER and LEVI PARSONS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 07:22 BST, 15 September 2021 | UPDATED: 07:55 BST, 15 September 2021
Kevin Rudd's multi-millionaire wife is blasted by eastern suburbs MP for demanding to know why Sydneysiders aren't being arrested for LEGALLY sunbathing while she enjoys lockdown-free life in $17m mansion
Kevin Rudd's wife has been slammed by social media users over lockdown tweet
On Saturday she asked why Sydney sunbathers were 'not being arrested?'
Liberal MP Dave Sharma said the comment was 'divisive' and 'judgemental'
Ms Rein did not realise that recreation was allowed under NSW health orders
Kevin Rudd's wife Thérèse Rein has been criticised for asking why sunbakers were not being arrested as they enjoyed a 30C day during Sydney's Covid lockdown.
In response to a tweet about how 'insanely busy' Sydney's Balmoral Beach was on Saturday, Ms Rein wrote: 'Why are they not being arrested?'
The multi-millionaire 63-year-old, who lives in a $17million waterfront mansion with former Labor prime minister Mr Rudd on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, did not realise that recreation is allowed under NSW public health orders.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma, who has repeatedly defended law-abiding beachgoers in his Wentworth electorate which includes Bondi Beach, said Ms Rein's comments were 'divisive and judgemental'.
'It's been tough for Sydney during lockdown. Getting outdoors has been one of the few relief outlets available for people,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.
Mr Sharma also said it was wrong for Ms Rein to criticise Sydneysiders for taking in the sunshine while she enjoys lockdown-free life in Queensland.
'It's both churlish and uncharitable to demand - from interstate no less - that people be arrested for engaging in activities that are in accordance with the public health orders, and which all evidence to date demonstrates do not pose public health risks,' he said.
'Comments like this only sow division. Let's all try to be a bit more understanding, and a little less judgemental, and we will come through this crisis the better for it.'
An hour after posting her initial tweet on Saturday, Ms Rein admitted she did not realise recreation was allowed - but she called for tougher lockdown rules.
'I guess the rules are different in NSW under lockdown than they were in Qld under lockdown. But it's just that, with as many new cases a day as NSW has, one wonders if the rules are quite adequate,' she wrote.
A source close to her said she wasn't calling for people to be arrested, only asking why they were not.
Due to the low risk of Covid spread outside, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has been encouraging Sydney residents - who have been in lockdown since late June - to go outside to keep in good mental and physical health.
While it's possible to catch Covid outside, it is extremely rare - with people
generally having to be in close proximity - less than two metres - for a 'significant' period of time.
Several angry Twitter users criticised Ms Rein - who reportedly made up to $150million when she sold her employment and business psychology services business Igneus in 2014 - after she made the comment on the hottest Sydney day since January.
'Imagine sitting in your mansion in Queensland with Kevin07 calling for people interstate to get arrested for going to the beach,' one commenter said.
Another wrote: 'Because they're not criminals hun' and 'because we don't arrest people for being in a public place that they are permitted to be in'.
'I know this is challenging for a lot of people to understand. But, after lengthy research into the details of current restrictions, it appears that it is not technically illegal to be outside,' another said.
Thousands of sun-starved Sydneysiders who've been living under stay-at-home orders for more than 13 weeks descended on the city's beaches over the weekend as temperatures climbed to 30C.
Beaches from Manly in the north to Cronulla in the south saw jam-packed crowds with photos from Bondi and Coogee in the eastern suburbs looking more like snaps taken before the Covid pandemic hit.
The nearby Woollahra Council was even forced to rope off Camp Cove at Watson's Bay and Redleaf beach at Double Bay, after massive crowds swarmed the popular harbourside spots.
Many followed Covid protocols by visiting with just one friend and wearing a mask, but police were out in force reminding sunseekers to follow public health orders - as the number of new coronavirus cases continues to hover between 1200 to 1500 each day.
Photos showed officers approaching scantily-clad Bondi residents to tell them to wear face coverings while they were not swimming, surfing, walking, or jogging.
Sydney residents face $500 fines for not wearing a mask 'in all indoor or outdoor areas, other than a place of residence'.
But infectious disease professor Peter Collignon said the risks associated with outdoor transmission are actually extremely scarce - about 20 to 30 times lower than indoors.
'Essentially, if you are outdoors and particularly if you keep your distance of two metres, you're very unlikely to get the virus. If you're outdoors and you're closer than that [for significant periods], then wear a mask,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I think we shouldn't discourage people from going outdoors. It is safer to spend time with your family outdoors than it is indoors.
'Secondly, there's an emotional and psychological cost of staying inside for so long.'
But despite the barrage of criticism levelled at Ms Rein for her hand-cuff happy comments about beachgoers, many on social media agreed with the respected rehabilitation counsellor and social entrepreneur.
'There's still a curfew in western Sydney with helicopter fly-overs at dusk!! Unbelievable double standard,' one person wrote.
Others accused Liberal Party Premier Gladys Berejiklian of 'giving up'.
Another wrote: 'Death doesn't care who you are... this pathogen has been unleashed now... these people will find out soon enough.'
PUBLISHED: 07:22 BST, 15 September 2021 | UPDATED: 07:55 BST, 15 September 2021
Kevin Rudd's multi-millionaire wife is blasted by eastern suburbs MP for demanding to know why Sydneysiders aren't being arrested for LEGALLY sunbathing while she enjoys lockdown-free life in $17m mansion
Kevin Rudd's wife has been slammed by social media users over lockdown tweet
On Saturday she asked why Sydney sunbathers were 'not being arrested?'
Liberal MP Dave Sharma said the comment was 'divisive' and 'judgemental'
Ms Rein did not realise that recreation was allowed under NSW health orders
Kevin Rudd's wife Thérèse Rein has been criticised for asking why sunbakers were not being arrested as they enjoyed a 30C day during Sydney's Covid lockdown.
In response to a tweet about how 'insanely busy' Sydney's Balmoral Beach was on Saturday, Ms Rein wrote: 'Why are they not being arrested?'
The multi-millionaire 63-year-old, who lives in a $17million waterfront mansion with former Labor prime minister Mr Rudd on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, did not realise that recreation is allowed under NSW public health orders.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma, who has repeatedly defended law-abiding beachgoers in his Wentworth electorate which includes Bondi Beach, said Ms Rein's comments were 'divisive and judgemental'.
'It's been tough for Sydney during lockdown. Getting outdoors has been one of the few relief outlets available for people,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.
Mr Sharma also said it was wrong for Ms Rein to criticise Sydneysiders for taking in the sunshine while she enjoys lockdown-free life in Queensland.
'It's both churlish and uncharitable to demand - from interstate no less - that people be arrested for engaging in activities that are in accordance with the public health orders, and which all evidence to date demonstrates do not pose public health risks,' he said.
'Comments like this only sow division. Let's all try to be a bit more understanding, and a little less judgemental, and we will come through this crisis the better for it.'
An hour after posting her initial tweet on Saturday, Ms Rein admitted she did not realise recreation was allowed - but she called for tougher lockdown rules.
'I guess the rules are different in NSW under lockdown than they were in Qld under lockdown. But it's just that, with as many new cases a day as NSW has, one wonders if the rules are quite adequate,' she wrote.
A source close to her said she wasn't calling for people to be arrested, only asking why they were not.
Due to the low risk of Covid spread outside, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has been encouraging Sydney residents - who have been in lockdown since late June - to go outside to keep in good mental and physical health.
While it's possible to catch Covid outside, it is extremely rare - with people
generally having to be in close proximity - less than two metres - for a 'significant' period of time.
Several angry Twitter users criticised Ms Rein - who reportedly made up to $150million when she sold her employment and business psychology services business Igneus in 2014 - after she made the comment on the hottest Sydney day since January.
'Imagine sitting in your mansion in Queensland with Kevin07 calling for people interstate to get arrested for going to the beach,' one commenter said.
Another wrote: 'Because they're not criminals hun' and 'because we don't arrest people for being in a public place that they are permitted to be in'.
'I know this is challenging for a lot of people to understand. But, after lengthy research into the details of current restrictions, it appears that it is not technically illegal to be outside,' another said.
Thousands of sun-starved Sydneysiders who've been living under stay-at-home orders for more than 13 weeks descended on the city's beaches over the weekend as temperatures climbed to 30C.
Beaches from Manly in the north to Cronulla in the south saw jam-packed crowds with photos from Bondi and Coogee in the eastern suburbs looking more like snaps taken before the Covid pandemic hit.
The nearby Woollahra Council was even forced to rope off Camp Cove at Watson's Bay and Redleaf beach at Double Bay, after massive crowds swarmed the popular harbourside spots.
Many followed Covid protocols by visiting with just one friend and wearing a mask, but police were out in force reminding sunseekers to follow public health orders - as the number of new coronavirus cases continues to hover between 1200 to 1500 each day.
Photos showed officers approaching scantily-clad Bondi residents to tell them to wear face coverings while they were not swimming, surfing, walking, or jogging.
Sydney residents face $500 fines for not wearing a mask 'in all indoor or outdoor areas, other than a place of residence'.
But infectious disease professor Peter Collignon said the risks associated with outdoor transmission are actually extremely scarce - about 20 to 30 times lower than indoors.
'Essentially, if you are outdoors and particularly if you keep your distance of two metres, you're very unlikely to get the virus. If you're outdoors and you're closer than that [for significant periods], then wear a mask,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I think we shouldn't discourage people from going outdoors. It is safer to spend time with your family outdoors than it is indoors.
'Secondly, there's an emotional and psychological cost of staying inside for so long.'
But despite the barrage of criticism levelled at Ms Rein for her hand-cuff happy comments about beachgoers, many on social media agreed with the respected rehabilitation counsellor and social entrepreneur.
'There's still a curfew in western Sydney with helicopter fly-overs at dusk!! Unbelievable double standard,' one person wrote.
Others accused Liberal Party Premier Gladys Berejiklian of 'giving up'.
Another wrote: 'Death doesn't care who you are... this pathogen has been unleashed now... these people will find out soon enough.'
By CHARLIE MOORE, POLITICAL REPORTER and LEVI PARSONS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 07:22 BST, 15 September 2021 | UPDATED: 07:55 BST, 15 September 2021
Kevin Rudd's multi-millionaire wife is blasted by eastern suburbs MP for demanding to know why Sydneysiders aren't being arrested for LEGALLY sunbathing while she enjoys lockdown-free life in $17m mansion
Kevin Rudd's wife has been slammed by social media users over lockdown tweet
On Saturday she asked why Sydney sunbathers were 'not being arrested?'
Liberal MP Dave Sharma said the comment was 'divisive' and 'judgemental'
Ms Rein did not realise that recreation was allowed under NSW health orders
Kevin Rudd's wife Thérèse Rein has been criticised for asking why sunbakers were not being arrested as they enjoyed a 30C day during Sydney's Covid lockdown.
In response to a tweet about how 'insanely busy' Sydney's Balmoral Beach was on Saturday, Ms Rein wrote: 'Why are they not being arrested?'
The multi-millionaire 63-year-old, who lives in a $17million waterfront mansion with former Labor prime minister Mr Rudd on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, did not realise that recreation is allowed under NSW public health orders.
Liberal MP Dave Sharma, who has repeatedly defended law-abiding beachgoers in his Wentworth electorate which includes Bondi Beach, said Ms Rein's comments were 'divisive and judgemental'.
'It's been tough for Sydney during lockdown. Getting outdoors has been one of the few relief outlets available for people,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.
Mr Sharma also said it was wrong for Ms Rein to criticise Sydneysiders for taking in the sunshine while she enjoys lockdown-free life in Queensland.
'It's both churlish and uncharitable to demand - from interstate no less - that people be arrested for engaging in activities that are in accordance with the public health orders, and which all evidence to date demonstrates do not pose public health risks,' he said.
'Comments like this only sow division. Let's all try to be a bit more understanding, and a little less judgemental, and we will come through this crisis the better for it.'
An hour after posting her initial tweet on Saturday, Ms Rein admitted she did not realise recreation was allowed - but she called for tougher lockdown rules.
'I guess the rules are different in NSW under lockdown than they were in Qld under lockdown. But it's just that, with as many new cases a day as NSW has, one wonders if the rules are quite adequate,' she wrote.
A source close to her said she wasn't calling for people to be arrested, only asking why they were not.
Due to the low risk of Covid spread outside, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has been encouraging Sydney residents - who have been in lockdown since late June - to go outside to keep in good mental and physical health.
While it's possible to catch Covid outside, it is extremely rare - with people
generally having to be in close proximity - less than two metres - for a 'significant' period of time.
Several angry Twitter users criticised Ms Rein - who reportedly made up to $150million when she sold her employment and business psychology services business Igneus in 2014 - after she made the comment on the hottest Sydney day since January.
'Imagine sitting in your mansion in Queensland with Kevin07 calling for people interstate to get arrested for going to the beach,' one commenter said.
Another wrote: 'Because they're not criminals hun' and 'because we don't arrest people for being in a public place that they are permitted to be in'.
'I know this is challenging for a lot of people to understand. But, after lengthy research into the details of current restrictions, it appears that it is not technically illegal to be outside,' another said.
Thousands of sun-starved Sydneysiders who've been living under stay-at-home orders for more than 13 weeks descended on the city's beaches over the weekend as temperatures climbed to 30C.
Beaches from Manly in the north to Cronulla in the south saw jam-packed crowds with photos from Bondi and Coogee in the eastern suburbs looking more like snaps taken before the Covid pandemic hit.
The nearby Woollahra Council was even forced to rope off Camp Cove at Watson's Bay and Redleaf beach at Double Bay, after massive crowds swarmed the popular harbourside spots.
Many followed Covid protocols by visiting with just one friend and wearing a mask, but police were out in force reminding sunseekers to follow public health orders - as the number of new coronavirus cases continues to hover between 1200 to 1500 each day.
Photos showed officers approaching scantily-clad Bondi residents to tell them to wear face coverings while they were not swimming, surfing, walking, or jogging.
Sydney residents face $500 fines for not wearing a mask 'in all indoor or outdoor areas, other than a place of residence'.
But infectious disease professor Peter Collignon said the risks associated with outdoor transmission are actually extremely scarce - about 20 to 30 times lower than indoors.
'Essentially, if you are outdoors and particularly if you keep your distance of two metres, you're very unlikely to get the virus. If you're outdoors and you're closer than that [for significant periods], then wear a mask,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I think we shouldn't discourage people from going outdoors. It is safer to spend time with your family outdoors than it is indoors.
'Secondly, there's an emotional and psychological cost of staying inside for so long.'
But despite the barrage of criticism levelled at Ms Rein for her hand-cuff happy comments about beachgoers, many on social media agreed with the respected rehabilitation counsellor and social entrepreneur.
'There's still a curfew in western Sydney with helicopter fly-overs at dusk!! Unbelievable double standard,' one person wrote.
Others accused Liberal Party Premier Gladys Berejiklian of 'giving up'.
Another wrote: 'Death doesn't care who you are... this pathogen has been unleashed now... these people will find out soon enough.'
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