India travel ban and prison threats set an 'incredibly dangerous precedent'
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Independent MP Zali Steggall says
Independent MP Zali Steggall says the federal government’s travel ban on India with fines and possible prison time for Australians who try to return home sets an “incredibly dangerous precedent”.
“This is undemocratic, it has not been debated in the parliament,” she said.
“We have not as a parliament agreed to this measure … it’s India today, but what is the next country where Australians will be left to fend for themselves?”
“Why is it that the proportional, acceptable risk is to leave Australians overseas, not urgently repatriated, to assist in easing the numbers on our quarantine?”
Ms Steggall said the Howard Springs facility in the Northern Territory should be scaled up immediately and other facilities built to respond to the crisis and prepare for others which might develop in the future.
“In October 2020 the government received a report, the Halton review, which indicated very clearly the federal government needed to establish a surge capacity, a fit for purpose quarantine facility to cope with unexpected increases in positive COVID cases coming through quarantine,” she said.
“The decision of by the prime minister and the government has been to leave Australians stranded overseas in life threatening situations because they have failed to implement the recommendation of their own review”.
“This is undemocratic, it has not been debated in the parliament,” she said.
“We have not as a parliament agreed to this measure … it’s India today, but what is the next country where Australians will be left to fend for themselves?”
“Why is it that the proportional, acceptable risk is to leave Australians overseas, not urgently repatriated, to assist in easing the numbers on our quarantine?”
Ms Steggall said the Howard Springs facility in the Northern Territory should be scaled up immediately and other facilities built to respond to the crisis and prepare for others which might develop in the future.
“In October 2020 the government received a report, the Halton review, which indicated very clearly the federal government needed to establish a surge capacity, a fit for purpose quarantine facility to cope with unexpected increases in positive COVID cases coming through quarantine,” she said.
“The decision of by the prime minister and the government has been to leave Australians stranded overseas in life threatening situations because they have failed to implement the recommendation of their own review”.
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