Australia considers sending coronavirus evacuees to mining camps

The first group of 241 evacuees arrived at the island's detention centre on Tuesday. The Prime Minister confirmed 35 Australians were now on a second evacuation flight run by Air New Zealand. Those evacuees will stop over in Auckland before being transported another 7450 kilometres to Christmas Island.

The Prime Minister's warning comes amid signs of tension over the Australian government amd media's handling of the global health emergency, with China's state media running an opinion piece that singled out Australia and the United States for over-reacting. Yu Lei, the prinicpal researcher the Pacific Island Research Center of Liaocheng University, said in an opinion piece for the Global Times that Australia had followed the US in banning non-residents coming from China after the media had ulteriorly referred to the “novel coronavirus” as the “Chinese virus”, and taken "the opportunity to promote racism, anti-foreign and xenophobia".

Mr Morrison praised the Chinese community's "magnificent" response to the crisis in Australia and said any provocations of the community were were "reprehensible". "You are observing and taking so seriously your responsibilities together with all Australians to ensure that we've been so far quite successfully able to contain the impact of the coronavirus within Australia," he said.

This bunch of ideologues will peddle any anything to add weight and justification that keeps the Christmas Island prison open with its circa AUD$200 million price tag

Can we send them on trains?

Send them to Scott Morrison

Of course acutely ill people should be sent to isolated mining camps. Peter Dutton should not be loose in public.

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