70 — I stopped these (Australian citizens)

We review urgent reviews, talk about jail time for traveling to Australia from India, and discuss Andrew Laming's ADHD.

 

Urgent review review

• The government has ordered an “urgent review” into the Australia Day council.
• The review is being conducted by Glenys Beauchamp, who you may remember for destroying her sports rorts notebooks.

India travel ban

• The situation in India is real bad.
• The government is instituting a policy of jail time or massive fines for people who travel from India.
• This may or may not be legal.
• Australia stripped Suhayra Aden of her Australian citizenship, leaving her a citizen of only New Zealand.
• When Covid first kicked off, people were quarantined off-shore on Christmas Island.
• Hotel quarantine continues to be not great. Workers keep on getting Covid.
• The Victorian government is proposing a dedicated quarantine facility. Peter Dutton doesn’t like it.
• In October 2020 the government’s own Covid Commission recommended a federal approach to quarantine.
• In an outrageous display of “diplomacy” China is sending vaccines to India.
• India is a net-exporter of vaccines.
• Bill Gates doesn’t think vaccine formulas should be shared with India. The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in medical technology.
• Australia is home to 700,000 people from India.

War, we’re going to war

• It’s WAR.
• Defence minister Peter Dutton says Australia should be ready for WAR with China.
• Home Affairs Michael Pezzullo reckons Europe learned the wrong lesson from the first World WAR.
• Defence Force chief Angus Campbell thinks WAR with China is a bad idea.
• War with China would be a bit-one sided.

Laming

• Liberal backbencher Andrew Laming says he has ADHD.
• Laming reckons the empathy training he was required to complete showed that he has too much empathy.
• On ABC Radio, Patricia Karvelas grilled Laming on his diagnosis and whether he is sorry for his actions.
• Laming does some 👁 stuff.

Actions

• Support refugee advocate Shane Bazzi, who is being sued by Peter Dutton for defamation.
• Listen to Lang on the Reanimates podcast.