Australians blast Government for “racist” Indian flight ban Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) A controversial ban on flights from COVID-hit India landing in Australia, has blocked around 9,000 Australians from returning home. Most of them are Australians of Indian origin, while there are also a handful of Australian elite cricketers, coaches, and other officials currently taking part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket extravaganza. This unprecedented move of banning its own citizens from returning home has angered many Australians, who have also branded this move by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Government as “racist” because no such bans were imposed on flights from the UK and US during the peak of the pandemic there.