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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire for accepting exemptions for a Father’s Day trip to Sydney to see his family, with Labor accusing him of “appalling judgment” after crossing borders with the nation’s two biggest states in hard lockdowns.

“You’ve got to have the same rules for people,” former opposition leader Bill Shorten said on Tuesday.

Mr Morrison has been in Canberra for several weeks as federal parliament sat in the capital.

 

Flight records showed a taxpayer-funded Dassault Falcon 7X jet – a private plane operated by the Royal Australian Air Force – travelled from Canberra to Sydney and back again on Saturday afternoon. Another Dassault flew from Canberra to Sydney and back on Monday morning.

Mr Morrison’s office confirmed he briefly returned to Sydney at the weekend – including Father’s Day on Sunday – before returning to Canberra on Monday. Both cities are in lockdown, but people coming from Canberra do not need an exemption to travel into NSW.

Mr Morrison did, however, need to seek an exemption from the ACT government to return to the territory.

Usually that would be accompanied by 14 days quarantine, but he was given an exemption to return for meetings, with the PM classed as an “essential worker”.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr said on Monday that he was “sure [Mr Morrison] has abided by the requirements”.

Senior Coalition ministers such as Josh Frydenberg and Barnaby Joyce have previously been granted exemptions to enter the ACT under strict COVID measures. But most MPs from Sydney or Melbourne have recently been forced into a mandatory two weeks isolation before being able to join parliament.

 

Read more: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/09/07/scott-morrison-fathers-day/

 

 

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A former interpreter for the Australian Defence Force in Afghanistan who fears for his life and has been waiting eight years for approval to come to Australia has been told a temporary humanitarian visa was issued to him "in error", leaving him and his young family in limbo.

A letter accompanying the visa, dated August 25 — 10 days after the fall of Kabul – invited the man, Hassan*, to leave hiding to go to the city's airport for an evacuation flight to Australia – if he judged it safe to do so.

That day, Hassan brought his wife, three little boys and eight-month-old baby girl to queue up with thousands of other terrified Afghans in the chaos outside the airport overnight.

The following day, Hassan said he and his family were just 10 metres away from the suicide bomb blast that killed almost 200 people at the airport's Abbey Gate.

After the blast, Hassan abandoned his plan to catch a flight. He and his family then drove across the border into Pakistan.

They had expected to be able to fly on to Australia, but then the email came through from the Department of Home Affairs on Friday to say that a mistake had been made.

They are now homeless and stranded in Pakistan with no visas.

The Department of Home Affairs gave Four Corners a statement saying it declined to comment on individual decisions.

 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/afghanistan-adf-interpreter-australia-visa-error/100435586

 

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Morrison has never understood the optics of his actions. For starters, there was the December 2019 Hawaiian holiday in the midst of the bushfires; forcing bushfire victims to shake his hand; and commissioning a Cornish Local History Society to do some family history research that led to side trips from the recent G7 meeting at the same time as so many Aussies abroad are still prevented from travelling home. Just what did the PM’s Father’s Day jaunt cost the taxpayer? Other families chose to follow government guidelines to stay at home, celebrating Father’s Day on Zoom. The privilege of office. Meantime, my Canberran son cannot travel to Sydney for a specialist appointment. 

 

Rhonda Seymour, Castle Hill

 

Read more:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/one-rule-for-the-pm-and-one-for-the-rest-of-us-doesn-t-fly-20210906-p58pbc.html

we are standing in it...

Are we really ‘all in this together’, Prime Minister? asks Niki Savva...

 

Yes, we are altogether in the same shit... Answers Gus-the-idiot...

 

Early in the COVID pandemic, Scott Morrison and his ministers defended delays in producing a British -style wage subsidy scheme to protect devastated workers by saying they were working on a uniquely Australian solution.

On March 24 last year, after Gladys Berejiklian and Daniel Andrews united to force the country into lockdown, something which Morrison had also resisted, he warned it could be very “dangerous” to dream up other schemes, like the British one.

 

Once again, it wasn’t a race. Except for the hundreds of thousands of jobless who sprinted to the closest Centrelink office.

Announcing JobKeeper six days later, Morrison emphasised its Australianness.

 

“There is not more support for some than there is for others. That is not the Australian way,” he said. “If one person falls on a hard time, if anyone falls on a hard time, it is the same hard time. We are all in this together. That is what is fair. That is what is Australian.”

Except it hasn’t been fair. The notion we are all in it together disappeared long ago. Not everybody has experienced hard times, quite the opposite, so clearly a new definition is needed of what it is to be Australian.

 

Read more:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/are-we-really-all-in-this-together-prime-minister-20210908-p58pqi.html

 

 

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