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21 Dec 2021
ABC News
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One thing you should know — we're not going back to lockdownsAs the Omicron COVID-19 variant spreads, there's understandably a little bit of concern around what that could mean for our day-to-day lives.
But Prime Minister Scott Morrison has hosed down suggestions we could be looking at a repeat of the past 18 months, saying we need to "move from a culture of mandates to a culture of responsibility".
What else is going on News alerts you might have missed"One of the key messages is, yes, we're going to need to continue to calibrate how we manage this virus and how we live with this virus in the face of Omicron. But we're not going back to lockdowns. We're not going back to shutting down peoples' lives."