By Dr Alison Broinowski AM. She is Vice-President of Australians for War Powers Reform. She joined the Australian Foreign Service in 1963, lived in Japan for a total of six years, and for shorter periods in Burma, Iran, the Philippines, Jordan, South Korea, the United States of America and Mexico, working alternately as an author and Australian diplomat.
Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she has received a PhD in Asian Studies from ANU, and has continued to lecture, write, and broadcast in Australia and abroad on Asian affairs and cultural and political issues.
Australians born in the last century remember how the ‘war on terror’ began in 2001. The same con trick is being tried on us again, for war with China.
Champions League Rumors: Wembley To Host Finals After British Travel Ban On Turkey
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The British government imposed a travel ban on Turkey after its surge in COVID-19 cases
The Wembley Stadium is being eyed as a replacement venue for the all-English title showdown
The all-English UEFA Champions League finals between Chelsea and Manchester City might be played in London after all, according to multiple reports.
The match originally scheduled to be played in Istanbul, Turkey on May 29 is facing a few hurdles, after the host country saw a surge in COVID-19 cases that has led to a lockdown.
Now, US approves ‘voluntary departure’ of its non-emergency Govt employees from India
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Now, US approves ‘voluntary departure’ of its non-emergency Govt employees from India
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Updated: May 6, 2021, 10:57 IST
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NEW DELHI: The United States has “approved voluntary departure of non-emergency US government employees” from India. The US State Department updated its travel advisory for India on Wednesday, to authorise this. Last Wednesday (April 28), it had approved the voluntary departure of family members of US government employees from India. “US citizens who wish to depart India should take advantage of available commercial transportation options,” it says.
Let us put aside timidity and reap the benefits of vaccination
America is encouraging the vaccinated to resume normal life. Britain should be doing the same
29 April 2021 • 6:00am
Visitors to a public health website can find the following advice for people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid, three weeks after the second jab: “You can start doing many things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic and participate in some indoor events safely, without much risk.” You can go to work, the site says, are exempt from routine screening, no longer need to quarantine, can gather indoors with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or distancing and do not need to get tested to leave the country unless the destination requires it. If you’ve been around someone who has Covid-19, you do not need to stay away from others or get tested unless you have symptoms.