David Crowe and Rachel Clun09:54, May 04 2021
Furious community leaders have accused the Australian Government of imposing “racist” jail terms on Australians who return from India amid a wider row over the secrecy involved in the emergency controls on citizen rights. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is also facing growing unrest among MPs who want the sanctions eased as soon as possible out of concern that the “extreme” measures impose great hardship on the community. Indian leaders said they were “blindsided” by the Government announcement at midnight on Friday night when they had been in meetings with federal ministers earlier that day and heard no suggestion of the coming move.