The prime minister is intent on masking the government’s lack of preparation by presenting the India travel ban as an inspired plan to prevent a third Covid wave
- Scott Morrison claims it is ‘highly unlikely’ Australians returning from India will be jailed
- India travel ban: does the health justification stack up and is the move legal?
Karl Stefanovic, the breakfast television host, opened Tuesday morning with a bouncer. “Prime minister, good morning to you. Do you have blood on your hands?” With cows mooing gently around him in Rockhampton, Scott Morrison attempted to belt Stefanovic’s bouncer to the boundary. “No, [that’s] obviously absurd.”
Morrison’s difficulty was the former Test cricketer Michael Slater had invoked prime ministerial blood on hands to blast the government’s extraordinary decision to criminalise Australians attempting to get home from Covid-ravaged India. Obviously Slater’s language was memorable.
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