SYDNEY (Reuters) ― Australia will impose 14-day self-isolation on international travelers arriving from midnight Sunday and ban cruise ships from foreign ports for 30 days, mirroring restrictions in nearby New Zealand aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the new measures after a meeting with a newly formed […]
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Coronavirus: US and Australia close borders to Chinese arrivals
Media playback is unsupported on your device Countries around the world have closed their borders to arrivals from China, as officials work to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus. The US and Australia said they would deny entry to all foreign nationals who had recently visited China, where the virus first emerged in December. […]
Coronavirus: Australia plans island quarantine as foreigners leave Wuhan
Hundreds of foreign nationals are being evacuated from Wuhan, the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, as more deaths and cases are confirmed. Australia plans to quarantine its evacuees on Christmas island 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the mainland. Japan, the US and the EU are also repatriating their citizens. British Airways has suspended all flights to […]
Keeping Kids In Detention With Their Parents Is A Recipe For Abuse. Just Ask Australia.
Since 1994, every single person who has come to Australian shores by boat without a visa ― most of them asylum-seekers ― has been taken to mandatory indefinite detention. Mandatory, as in there are almost no exceptions. Indefinite, in that it could theoretically last forever. And detention is just like what it sounds like. While […]
'Queer Eye' In Yass, Australia Is On Youtube And It's A 20-Minute Emotional Journey
Netflix released a 20-minute bonus episode of “Queer Eye” on YouTube on Thursday and it’ll make you say, “Yas!” In the episode, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness headed to Yass, Australia, to work with cattle farmer and former rodeo cowboy George. George is in his 50s, single, and a father […]