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Australia Won't Give Visas to People from Ebola-Hit Countries
NBC ^
| 28OCT2014
| NBC Staff Writer
Posted on 10/28/2014 9:19:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
SYDNEY - Australia issued a blanket ban on visas from West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak Tuesday, making it the first rich nation to shut its doors to the region and earning criticism from health experts and rights groups. Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola despite a number of scares, and conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has so far resisted repeated requests to send medical personnel to help battle the outbreak on the ground.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told parliament Monday that all non-permanent or temporary visas from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia were being cancelled and permanent visa holders who had not yet arrived in Australia will be required to submit to a 21-day quarantine period. Healthcare workers in Queensland state are being asked to enter voluntary quarantine upon returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. A number of U.S. states, including New York and New Jersey, have also imposed mandatory quarantines on returning doctors and nurses.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; ban; ebloa; ebola; ebolagate; ebolagateobama; ebolaobama; visa; visas
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To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:22:23 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: Jack Hydrazine
At least there is some sanity left somewhere in this world.
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:25:27 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Can we trade their leader for ours?
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:27:46 PM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(The ferguson rioters, looters and arsonists are DOMESTIC LEFT WING TERRORISTS)
To: Jack Hydrazine
But, but, they are going to miss out on all the diversity!
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:28:45 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Cubs Fan
Would you really want to curse Australia with Obama?
Thanks to Obama we have very few friends left in the world and you want to alienate Australia? (LOL!)
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:32:42 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: FlingWingFlyer
I hope they keep their backbones and don’t buckle. The pressure is going to be tremendous.
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:33:00 PM PDT
by
Kozak
("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
To: Jack Hydrazine
It’s a human right to get a visa?
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posted on
10/28/2014 9:38:32 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
10/28/2014 10:06:03 PM PDT
by
firebrand
To: Jack Hydrazine
Australia an New Zeeland have real leaders.
We are stuck with an incompetent community organizer from south side of Chicago, 10 times worse than the worst RINO.
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posted on
10/28/2014 10:09:01 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(Marxist, race baiter, community organizer boy king is 10 times worse than any RINO)
To: RightGeek
You left out “and lied to the admitting nurse about handling an Ebola victim’s body”
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posted on
10/28/2014 10:11:08 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
To: Jack Hydrazine
WOW, some sanity for a change.
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posted on
10/28/2014 10:30:28 PM PDT
by
nomad
To: entropy12
They are more concerned with protecting their own citizens than being called racist for not rolling out the welcome mat. What a novel idea!
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posted on
10/28/2014 10:42:11 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: doc1019
We will still be mates - but seriously don’t send him! LOL
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posted on
10/28/2014 11:02:22 PM PDT
by
melsec
(There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I have been sending all the links I get from here to a Senator from Victoria who had lunch with the PM the other night - so I’m taking the kudos for this decision. LOL
I am seriously surprised we havn’t heard the left whining yet - there are not too many votes here in claiming racism!
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posted on
10/28/2014 11:06:31 PM PDT
by
melsec
(There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
To: doc1019
Yeah, and we (the royal “we”) elected the dumbest man in the room twice!
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posted on
10/28/2014 11:14:43 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: Jack Hydrazine
And we be dyin fo gaia. Woo!
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posted on
10/28/2014 11:40:49 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
To: melsec
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posted on
10/29/2014 5:22:20 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Australia Won't Give Visas to People from Ebola-Hit Countries.
When will the land of Oz stop allowing Americans to fly in?
Thanks to the PC CDC and ebolagate Obama, we have had documented cases of Ebola in America and will have more with our PC handling of this deadly disease.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:05:01 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
10/29/2014 10:07:34 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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