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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20231 Gordon Gender:	Re: Australians from India to be jailed for 5 years. Reply #195 - May 7^th, 2021 at 6:01pm Looks like the first flights will start next weekend and will be going straight to the quarantine facility near Darwin, which is being given increased capacity. All this froth over nothing, except protecting our country. Pffttt.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20231 Gordon Gender:	Re: Australians from India to be jailed for 5 years. Reply #196 - May 11^th, 2021 at 3:25pm Ganga Mata takes them all away https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/covid-india-who-bodies-wash-up-on-banks-o...
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20231 Gordon Gender:	Re: Australians from India to be jailed for 5 years. Reply #197 - May 11^th, 2021 at 3:27pm Anyone still believe the Indian ban is racist? WHO classifies variant from India as being of global concern
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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: Australians from India to be jailed for 5 years. Reply #198 - May 11^th, 2021 at 4:38pm YUCK!!!!
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Reply #199 - May 11^th, 2021 at 5:35pm

Gordon wrote on May 11^th, 2021 at 3:25pm:

Ganga Mata takes them all away

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-11/covid-india-who-bodies-wash-up-on-banks-o...

thats unbelievable the govt of that country should be sacked to expect its people to live with those conditions is reprehensible

where the hell is the UN and the WHO two main organisations that is meant to be there helping this country??????...

its horrific..

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Reply #200 - May 14^th, 2021 at 4:44pm

Half of repatriation flight from India unable to board after coronavirus tests

https://www.9news.com.au/national/australians-testing-positive-coronavirus-covid...

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Nearly half of the 150 passengers scheduled to leave on the first repatriation flight out of India will not be allowed on the plane due to COVID-19 test results.
Of the planned passenger group, 72 were banned from the flight home to Australia after 48 tested positive for coronavirus.
The other 24 were family members of positive cases and deemed close contacts.

The first repatriation flight is due to leave New Delhi after the ban on returned travellers was lifted today.
The positive diagnoses mean they will be stuck in India until they recover.

Wow... doesn't look like too many "stranded Aussies" will be returning here from India for the foreseeable future, even with the travel ban lifted.

But, the cricketers haven't had a problem, of course.

Australian cricketers set to return from Maldives once India travel ban lifts

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/14/australian-cricketers-set-to-retur...

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Australia’s Indian Premier League contingent could return home in coming days, with cricket administrators hopeful of getting the green light from the federal government.

The majority of the 38-strong group of IPL players, coaches and commentators are still in the Maldives, having departed India last Thursday on a charter flight.

The IPL contingent is expected to board a charter flight out of the Maldives, potentially as early as this weekend, then land in Sydney and enter NSW’s hotel-quarantine system.

It is not yet clear if the number of hotel quarantine places available to regular Australians wanting to repatriate will be impacted by the cricket cohort’s arrival into the system in NSW.

Well, since it doesn't look like too many others will be returning for a while there should be plenty of hotel quarantine places availiabe for the cricketers.

Edit: Gordon started a new thread at the same time as I posted this.

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Reply #201 - May 16^th, 2021 at 11:39am

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Australian citizens returning home from India could face up to five years in jail and fines after the government made the journey temporarily illegal.

Here's my take on it.
Scotty@marketting saw how popular the State Premiers were with their border closures so thought he was on a winner by blocking flights from India. He failed to see that he was actually criminalizing Australian citizens from returning to their own country and threatening them with jail (forcing him to back track on that).

He also failed to explain why UK flights weren't blocked when the UK variant became an issue earlier in the year.

You know you have got it wrong when even Andrew Bolt calls you racist Grin

Political commentator Andrew Bolt said the policy to ban Australians from returning home from India was “cruel” and “racist”.

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Reply #202 - May 16^th, 2021 at 11:48am

The_Barnacle wrote on May 16^th, 2021 at 11:39am:

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Australian citizens returning home from India could face up to five years in jail and fines after the government made the journey temporarily illegal.

Here's my take on it.
Scotty@marketting saw how popular the State Premiers were with their border closures so thought he was on a winner by blocking flights from India. He failed to see that he was actually criminalizing Australian citizens from returning to their own country and threatening them with jail (forcing him to back track on that).

He also failed to explain why UK flights weren't blocked when the UK variant became an issue earlier in the year.

You know you have got it wrong when even Andrew Bolt calls you racist Grin

Political commentator Andrew Bolt said the policy to ban Australians from returning home from India was “cruel” and “racist”.

Or, he just wanted to save your sorry old arse from dying of Covid, you ungrateful turd.

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Reply #203 - May 17^th, 2021 at 9:08am

Meanwhile, the Aussie cricketers who foolishly went to India in the middle of a pandemic have arrived back here.

Australian cricketers and staff touch down in Sydney after leaving coronavirus-stricken India

https://www.9news.com.au/national/australian-cricket-players-to-arrive-in-sydney...

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Australian cricket players and staff who left coronavirus-stricken India have touched down in Sydney this morning after flying in from the Maldives.
The 38 players and officials went to the Maldives a fortnight ago following the suspension of the Indian Premier League.

Hope they enjoyed their little 'holiday' at the Maldives. Wonder if they posted 'selfies' on Facebook, etc. like a lot of the Bollywood stars who had also fled there from India to escape the virus were doing?

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Cricket Australia says it has made no requests for special exemptions to quarantine and Prime Minister Scott Morrison said they will be treated like ordinary Australians.

Pull the other one, Scotty (see below). If they were being treated like "ordinary Australians" they'd still be stuck in India.

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After landing, the group will be will loaded onto buses and taken to different quarantine hotels across Sydney.

Yes, of course. No Northern Territory Howard Springs quarantine for us... we're famous!! We're cricketers!! Roll Eyes

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Reply #204 - May 17^th, 2021 at 9:18am

Well, at least they've finally woken up.

Maldives was a Bollywood bolthole during India's second wave. Now wealthy Indians are shut out

https://www.9news.com.au/world/india-covid-maldives-was-a-bollywood-bolthole-dur...

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Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for wealthy Indians fleeing their own country's COVID-19 crisis.
The atoll nation's Ministry of Tourism and immigration authority announced the temporary ban on Tuesday, which applies to all visa holders from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as people who have transited those countries in the past 14 days.
The ban, effective Thursday, will be in place until further notice as Maldives tries to control a surge in coronavirus cases, which jumped from around 100 new cases in mid-April to 1,572 on Wednesday.
That's the highest number of daily new cases in the country since the start of the pandemic, according to the Health Protection Agency.

Better late than never, I guess?

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Reply #205 - May 17^th, 2021 at 11:32am

Passenger on New Delhi repatriation flight tests positive to COVID-19 in quarantine in Darwin

A passenger on a repatriation flight from India that landed in Darwin on Saturday has tested positive for COVID-19.

NT Health says the passenger is in quarantine at the Howard Springs facility on the outskirts of Darwin.

The flight was the first to land in Australia from the COVID-ravaged country since the federal government implemented a travel ban — and tightened pre-departure testing measures — several weeks ago.

NT health authorities have said the measures are required to keep cases at the facility at a manageable level, warning they could consider slowing or again pausing repatriation flights if the caseload rose higher than a target cap of 50 cases.

About half of the 150 passengers intending to board the plane were turned away after either testing positive or being deemed close contacts of positive cases.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-17/nt-new-covid-case-from-india-repatriation...

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