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Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg says the government is “following the advice of health agencies” with regard to the temporary India travel ban and the harsh penalties for breaking the ban. “We are following the advice of the health agencies here and putting in place the strongest possible deterrents and these are very strong deterrents,” he told Sky News.
ajamesbragg Health agencies are there to provide health advice, they don't have the skills or training to provide security/operational/legal advice. Also the CMO has contradicted you.
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ajamesbragg Why didn’t anyone protest about the closure of borders to China last year? You’re all hypocrites
ajamesbragg Morrison is flip flopping like a dying fish.
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ajamesbragg Stick with it ScottMorrisonMP as Labor still looking to bring down our borders when we need it the most. Will Albo & Labor take responsibility if the India virus leaks out potentially devastating Australian economy & lives are lost.! MarisePayne JoshFrydenberg PeterDutton_MP
ajamesbragg Morrison needs to come out and state that all Aussies travelling overseas cannot be guaranteed of return and may die abroad with no government assistance. Otherwise he's a first degree xenophobe.
ajamesbragg Well that may or may not be true, but if the federal govt. had set up better Quarantine we could bring Australians home.
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Federal Court to hear urgent challenge against India travel ban | Sky News AustraliaThe Federal Court will hear an urgent challenge today to the Morrison government's ban on Australians returning home from India.\n\nThe legal team defending 73-year-old Gary Newman - who is stranded in Bangalore - filed an application on Wednesday to challenge the emergency declaration made under the Biosecurity Act.\n\nThe travel pause came into effect last week making it a crime for anyone to return from India within two weeks of visiting the country.\n\nPenalties include fines of up to $66,000 or a five-year jail sentence. \n\nMr Newman is challenging the ban on multiple bases, including constitutional grounds.\n Australian cov19 has spread in hotal quarantine ,with a 0 percent preceived infection rate of the public in those quarantine hotels . The Indian do gooders want a international plane from india with 40 percent infection rate to enter Australia communities .
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Greens leader accuses PM of ‘racism’ over India travel ban | Sky News AustraliaGreens leader Adam Bandt has accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of imposing a “racist” travel ban on India and has called for the Coalition to lift the order immediately.\n\nEight members of the crossbench including Mr Bandt have signed a letter to Mr Morrison demanding he lift the ban on flights from India.\n\nThe order penalises citizens and residents stranded in the COVID-stricken country if they attempt to travel home with hefty fines up to $66,000 or a five-year jail sentence.\n\nThe decision has sparked heavy backlash from the opposition, human rights groups and the Indian-Australian community.\n\nMr Bandt said, “the government shouldn’t be threatening people with jail time because the government’s failed to build enough quarantine facilities or organise enough repatriation flights”.\n\n“The ban is racist, it’s possibly illegal, it’s not supported by the medical advice and it’s got to go,” he told Sky News.\n\n“Threatening people with jail time because they’re coming from a country that is not predominantly white - we didn’t take this approach of threatening people with jail time when it came to the US or the UK.\n\nThe Greens Leader labelled the travel ban and limited quarantine spaces a “damning indictment” on the prime minister and his government. \n If the Greens are saying that, then PM has made the right call! AdamBandt ScottMorrisonMP Inside Greens senators brains AdamBandt ScottMorrisonMP AdamBandt GOOSE OF THE YEAR CANDIDATE can’t split him with AlboMP
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India travel ban likened to Pontius Pilot 'washing his hands' of responsibility | Sky News AustraliaNationals Senator Matt Canavan has compared the Morrison government’s decision to impose a travel ban on India to Pontius Pilot who “washed his hands” of responsibility at the trial before the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible. \n\nHis comments followed the Prime Minister’s decision to walk back threats to penalise Australians flying home after spending time in India within 14 days of their arrival.\n\nThere are nearly 650 Australians in India listed as vulnerable and 9,000 who are reportedly stranded as the country struggles to deal with skyrocketing cases and an overwhelmed health system.\n\nThe decision to impose a temporary ban on flights from India has triggered a chorus of criticism from crossbenchers and backbenchers in the Morrison government.\n\nMr Canavan said he was concerned the coronavirus had destroyed “not just our freedoms” but sometimes “our sense of humanity to each other”.\n\n“We sent planes to Wuhan to get Australians out and now 15 months down the track we are taking a leaf from Pontius Pilot and washing our hands of the circumstances of our fellow Australians.”\n mattjcan Matt Canavan going hard against Morrison government. Coalition branches are breaking slowly, slowly, and fruits are not falling far away from the tree, the only thing now people can see is that rotting core in the middle of the fruit. mattjcan Haha sniff the coal buddy it’s doing wonders for you stay in line you goose what’s best for Australia not the minority mattjcan Has Caravan totally lost whatever marbles he had 🤪🤪🤪
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PM 'not concerned' travel ban will damage India-Australia relations | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison says he is “not concerned” the travel ban imposed on return travellers from India will damage relations between the two nations.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labor Senator Penny Wong raised concerns over the Coalition’s approach to the India travel ban and said it had the potential to undermine critical relations with India as aggressive posturing by China continues to escalate.\n\nHowever, this morning the prime minister pointed out Australia had sent a “significant” amount of humanitarian support to India to help the country through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nHe said the temporary pause in travel would enable Australia to get citizens, residents and their immediate families back on repatriation flights.\n\nMr Morrison suggested without the ban the government would have been “eroding their capability” to help repatriate Australians over the medium to longer term.\n\n“This was a necessary step to ensure that we could help more Australian citizens and residents get home, safely, in a way that did not risk a third wave in Australia,” he said. \n ScottMorrisonMP How many Asian trading nations good relations do you want to destroy ? Our economy is in jeopardy. Idiot ScottyFromMarketing LNPfail AlboMP RichardMarlesMP AlanKohler SaulEslake JEChalmers ScottMorrisonMP Why would India be offended, he has just banned Australians from returning to Australia. ScottMorrisonMP Just a DS,, PEDO,, WANTIMG TO DESTROY & WEAKEN AUSTRALIA..
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