How many deaths are we prepared to risk?
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INDIA TRAVEL BAN
How many deaths are we prepared to risk?
The travel ban is in place while COVID-19 is running rampant in India and while we do not have sufficient quarantine facilities in Australia. Our hotel quarantine barely copes with the current level of arrivals. We still see COVID-positive cases among the arrivals, even from countries with low rates of infection. We also see cases where COVID-19 is transmitted to quarantine workers. The real question is: How many collateral infections and deaths in Australia are acceptable if we allow travellers from India into this country?
Handle dispute without inflaming the situation
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Handle dispute without inflaming the situation
December 17, 2020 â 11.08pm
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CHINA
Handle dispute without inflaming the situation
Our government has decided to poke the Chinese dragon with a number of sticks, including blocking $14billion of foreign investment, some of which had been approved by the Foreign Investment Review Board, launching anti-dumping investigations and blocking Huawei from our 5G market. There has been criticism of Chinaâs human rights record and an independent inquiry on the origin of the coronavirus has been called for. The dragon is not happy and punitive measures are being applied, including restrictions on trade that will have a devastati