UN condemns Morrison failure to repatriate Aussies

The UN has condemned the Morrison Government’s neglect of stranded Aussies. It will probably mean the personality disorder PM does even less:

The #UnitedNations Human Rights Committee has today ruled that Australia “facilitate and ensure” the return of #strandedaussies. We will keep fighting until these travel restrictions are lifted and their #HumanRights are respected. https://t.co/ev3CbwR1dm

— Lionel Nichols (@LionelNichols) April 15, 2021

The UN Human Rights Committee has accepted our submissions that the petitioners would suffer “irreparable harm” if not permitted to return home and ordered their “immediate” repatriation to Australia. @FreeandOpenAust pic.twitter.com/CuA2gFoQHn

— Lionel Nichols (@LionelNichols) April 15, 2021

34,500 Aussies are still trying to get home. Charter some godamned aircraft and go get them. Or subsidise the flights.

Put a one-off levy on our taxes if needs be.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.