\u201cMobilising the police and Australian Defence Force to treat a public health crisis is absurd,\u201d said The Greens spokesperson for Justice and First Nations Senator Lidia Thorpe, as the ADF begins their deployment to Western Sydney.
\n\u201cOfficers of the law are not experts in public health messaging, culturally accessible information and welfare support services that enable people to stay at home safely,\u201d said Thorpe.\u00a0Western Sydney has a significant First Nations and multicultural community.
\n\u201cScott Morrison\u2019s botched vaccine rollout is what\u2019s making people sick, not their lack of compliance. You don\u2019t see our military patrolling Bondi or the Northern Beaches,\u201d said Thorpe.
\n\u201cPeople are dying in their homes because they\u2019re reluctant to go to the hospital. The militarized response does not foster health and wellbeing in our communities. Ten Indigenous people have died in police custody since March,\u201d said Thorpe.
\nThe Greens Senator for NSW and spokesperson for Anti-racism Mehreen Faruqi said, \u201cPutting the military into any community, let alone some of the most over-policed communities in the country, is a terrible idea.
\n\u201cThe Liberals are pushing fear and threats where they need to offer real support for people to stay home and get through this very difficult time.
\n\u201cThe militarisation of public health makes zero sense. Communities in Western Sydney are already going through these difficult lockdowns. Inflicting further anxiety and stress on them is just plain wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cMobilising the police and Australian Defence Force to treat a public health crisis is absurd,\u201d said The Greens spokesperson for Justice and First Nations Senator Lidia Thorpe, as the ADF begins their deployment to Western Sydney. \u201cOfficers of the law are not experts in public health messaging, culturally accessible information and welfare support services that … Continue reading “The Greens label ADF deployment to Western Sydney as absurd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}