Loophole leaves wedding of healthcare workers in limbo

A frontline healthcare worker has questioned the logic of the WA government’s strict changes to COVID-19 restrictions when the border reopens on March 3.
Adam Beavis, whose wedding is scheduled for March 5, said new changes to home gathering rules were restrictive in their parameters.
He told Gareth Parker on 6PR Breakfast his outdoor wedding on a 2000sqm residential property in Darlington, with 100 guests, should not be classified as a home gathering, as the house on the property was not being used during the event.
Mr Beavis and his fiancée had developed a COVID-safe plan, including QR check-in code, RATs on entry and requests for guests to be fully vaccinated.
“We’re both healthcare workers, myself and my fiancée, we’re both extremely conscious of being COVID-safe,” he told Parker.
“My fiancée works with disabled and special needs children, I’m in frontline healthcare, we’re not COVID skeptics or anti-vaxxers or anything of the sort.
“We’re quite the opposite, we take COVID very seriously – we’ve tried to keep our friends and family and loved ones safe at this wedding.
“Now all of a sudden anything more than 30 people in that environment is declared unsafe and illegal, but you can have 200 people in an outdoor venue if it’s hired. I don’t understand the difference.
“So you can have 200 people in a nightclub, or 45,000 people at Optus Stadium, but you can’t have 31 people at a backyard wedding with a COVID-safe plan.
“I think it’s really disappointing at this stage of the pandemic that we still have rules like that, that don’t make any logical sense, that don’t provide any health benefit at all.”
Tap PLAY below to hear more on Adam’s thoughts and confusion here.