Government s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and latest tourism stimulus package attacked on Q+A
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The government s plan to save regional tourism have been slammed by the Opposition and industry insiders, for not being broad enough while the vaccine rollout was also criticised for being behind schedule.
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The federal government has come under fire on Q+A over both Australia s vaccine rollout and the newly announced plan to aid tourism in regional areas.
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Shadow Home Affairs Minister Kristina Keneally has laid the responsibility for the hotel quarantine breaches of the last few months squarely at the feet of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
“Let’s begin by remembering Scott Morrison’s promise that stranded Australians would be home by Christmas. That’s a broken promise,” she said.
Ms Keneally said Jane Halton who headed the national inquiry into Australia’s hotel quarantine failures made clear the system was unsustainable, not fit for purpose and should be replaced by a national quarantine facility with surge capacity.
“If you want to bring a horse into Australia, it will go into a national quarantine facility but if you are an Australian who wants to come home to Australia Scott Morrison does not want to know you," she said.
“The problems that exist in hotel quarantine today are because we have not had national leadership to take responsibility.”
Labor pushes for far-right extremists Proud Boys to be declared terrorists
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Men wearing the Proud Boys logo on their clothing took part in rallies protesting the cancellation of the official Australia Day parade.
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Canada s recent decision to declare far-right extremists the Proud Boys as terrorists is ramping up the pressure on Australian authorities to do the same.
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The Proud Boys were involved in January s attack on the US Capitol, according to US officials
People who associate with the group have been spotted in Australia
The Home Affairs Minister says it s up to ASIO to provide advice to him that a group is a terrorist organisation