The Project: Sydney should have had a stricter lockdown sooner

‘Shut us the hell down’: The Project host says Sydney should have had a STRICTER lockdown sooner – and admits she’s ‘surprised’ Aussies are so resistant to staying at home


The Project host Rachel Corbett has declared Sydney should have had a stricter lockdown sooner.

The panel was discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to extend Sydney’s lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly asked Corbett: ‘Do you think Sydneysiders would like to see something stricter now?’

‘I can only speak for myself but I’ve always felt a bit on the wrong side of these people that are being spoken to,’ she responded.

‘We’re being treated like delicate flowers’: The Project host Rachel Corbett said on Wednesday that Sydney should have had a stricter lockdown sooner

‘I feel like we’re being treated like delicate flowers who couldn’t possibly deal with a lockdown when, in reality, we don’t want to go into a lockdown that continually gets extended because we’re hemming and hawing about where we should be.’

Corbett added: ‘I think everybody understands we’re in the middle of a pandemic.

‘If something is going wrong, shut us the hell down and get us back to normal as soon as you possibly can. I don’t think there’s anything unreasonable in that.

Discussion: The panel was discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's decision to extend Sydney's lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly (pictured) asked Corbett: 'Do you think Sydneysiders would like to see something stricter now?'

Discussion: The panel was discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to extend Sydney’s lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly (pictured) asked Corbett: ‘Do you think Sydneysiders would like to see something stricter now?’

‘I’ve always been a bit surprised at this hesitation about being very black-and-white in Sydney because I get there’s pushback, but you have to take the pushback to get a better result.’

It comes after Ms Berejiklian extended Sydney’s lockdown and warned harsher restrictions may be needed on Wednesday.

The extension of lockdown applies to the five million residents across Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Shellharbour and Wollongong, while those in regional NSW will have to continue wearing masks.

Her view: 'I feel like we're being treated like delicate flowers who couldn't possibly deal with a lockdown,' she said

Her view: ‘I feel like we’re being treated like delicate flowers who couldn’t possibly deal with a lockdown,’ she said

Ms Berejiklian said the decision was ‘difficult’ but was taken to stop the state ‘living in and out of lockdown’ until more people are vaccinated.

‘It is so important for all of us to stick together. We’ve beaten the odds before and this is perhaps the biggest challenge our state faces since the beginning of the pandemic,’ she said.

New South Wales wants to eliminate community transmission until ‘the vast majority’ of adults are vaccinated. So far only nine per cent of Aussie adults have had both doses of the jab as the federal government struggles to secure Pfizer supplies.

Lockdown: It comes after Ms Berejiklian extended Sydney's lockdown and warned harsher restrictions may be needed on Wednesday

Lockdown: It comes after Ms Berejiklian extended Sydney’s lockdown and warned harsher restrictions may be needed on Wednesday