70 — I stopped these (Australian citizens)
May 05, 2021•58 min•Ep. 70
Episode description
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Support refugee advocate Shane Bazzi, who is being sued by Peter Dutton for defamation.
- Listen to Lang on the Reanimates podcast.