How we treat India during Covid will playout for years

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May How we treat India during Covid will playout for years How we treat India during Covid will playout for years 03/05/2021 | 3 MINS Opinion piece by Professor Shamit Saggar, Director of LIT's Public Policy Institute (originally published in The Australian). The COVID-19 situation in India is bleak. There is no getting away from that harsh reality, and everything we do in Australia is necessarily constrained. Australians have had ΓÇ£a good pandemicΓÇ¥, so-to-speak, and therefore have a lot to lose. We are in danger of getting into a muddle for three reasons. First, we must be seen to do our best. Nine thousand Australian citizens need to get back home, one in seven of whom are at immediate risk. The extent of repatriation flights obviously depends on vaccinations overseas and quarantine capacity at home, and it has long been apparent that the Morrison government has been sluggish in arranging the global return of its citizens. But it isnΓÇÖt going to wash to say that these Australians have to wait in line. Why? Because we should be weighti

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May How we treat India during Covid will playout for years How we treat India during Covid will playout for years 03/05/2021 | 3 MINS Opinion piece by Professor Shamit Saggar, Director of LIT's Public Policy Institute (originally published in The Australian).

There is no getting away from that harsh reality, and everything we do in Australia is necessarily constrained.

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