The Project host Rachel Corbett claims Sydney should have had a stricter lockdown sooner

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


The Project’s Rachel Corbett has claimed that Sydney should have had a stricter lockdown sooner.

The program’s panellists were discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to extend the Sydney lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly asked Rachel: ‘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’s Rachel Corbett (pictured) claimed 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.’

Rachel went on to say: ‘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 program's panellists were discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's decision to extend the Sydney lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly (pictured) asked Rachel: 'Do you think Sydneysiders would like to see something stricter now?'

Discussion: The program’s panellists were discussing NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s decision to extend the Sydney lockdown on Wednesday, when Waleed Aly (pictured) asked Rachel: ‘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.

'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,' she said

‘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,’ 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