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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There are 30,000 Australians who wanted to make it home (10,000 in India alone) by the end of the year but are effectively locked out by Govt caps and bans...and how many more families who are separated this Christmas by the ban on leaving the country?

#strandedAussies Image
Does the PM not realise that many of those people having the Christmas he gloats Australians won't have to have are also Australian?

God forbid if they get seriously ill from Covid and have been trying to get home for some time...

#StrandedAussies
Also add, this doesn't account for those with valid visas to enter Australia (or did have) but have been barred from entering and reuniting with their loved ones.

eg: smh.com.au/world/europe/i…

and smh.com.au/world/europe/8…
FB group to discuss these issues here btw: facebook.com/groups/3907097…

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18 Dec
THREAD.

Former Australian Prime Minister @MrKRudd interviewing China's Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi for @AsiaSociety.

Rudd is making opening remarks in Mandarin.

youtube.com/c/asiasociety/…
Rudd (returning to English): It gives me no pleasure that the current state of the US-China relationship is 'probably the worst that we've seen in the nearly half a century.'
Rudd: The key challenge for the future is what we will do for the extraordinary decade of the 2020s which lies ahead

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[EXC]

Britain's independent Climate Change Committee urges Australia to adopt its Climate Change Act which legislates carbon reduction targets saying the law is the reason for bringing down UK's emissions since it's introduction in 2008.

latika.me/38nSIj1
The Committee made a submission to Independent MP @zalisteggall's inquiry.

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She has proposed her own bill based on UK's legislation.

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23 Nov
MORE good news!!!
AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is 70 per cent effective after first does and COULD be 90 per cent effective after second. And....it has a fridge temperature. ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-2…
PM Boris Johnson: "Incredibly exciting news the Oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. There are still further safety checks ahead, but these are fantastic results."
Australia has an agreement to buy 3.8 million doses and produce 30 million locally, vaccinating 16.9 million people...But with less certainty about AstraZeneca's efficacy rate will people want Pzifer or Moderna's if they can get it/choose.
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22 Nov
Rishi Sunak: England's lockdown ends on Dec 2. We will be going back into localised approach, tier system which he agrees will be toughened. #marr
Sunak won't say if hospitality will have to stay closed until Christmas. #marr
Sunak: Cabinet meeting later today to discuss exiting national restrictions ahead of PM statement Monday. Can't say if retail will be able to open before Christmas. #marr
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Landslide for Jacinda Arden. electionresults.govt.nz
Rockstar welcome for the re-endorsed PM.
Ardern: "Tonight New Zealand has shown the Labour party its greatest support in at least 50 years."
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30 Jul
Douglas Ross CONFIRMED running for Tory leader in Scotland.
This from his campaign manager John Lamont has just been sent to MPs.
"I am pleased to confirm that our own colleague Douglas Ross, will be standing in the leadership election".
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Lamont: "If successful, Douglas will continue as an MP until the next General Election."
- "During his time in the Scottish Parliament and at Westminster, Douglas has demonstrated that he is a formidable political figure."
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