{"id":6721,"date":"2020-05-26T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2020-05-26T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T12:00:25","slug":"us-marine-rotational-force-must-not-go-ahead-in-order-to-protect-territorians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/us-marine-rotational-force-must-not-go-ahead-in-order-to-protect-territorians\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Rotational Force must not go ahead in order to protect Territorians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has expressed deep concern that the United States Marine Rotational Force will be going ahead in Darwin in early June.<br \/>\n\u201cAll military cooperation with the United States in Australia must cease while the threat of COVID-19 remains high to protect people in the the Northern Territory, including First Nations Communities and Australian Forces who would ordinarily be undertaking shared activities with US Troops based in the Top End,\u201d Steele-John said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Northern Territory has worked hard to ensure that COVID-19 is contained, including strict border controls and placing restrictions on movement into remote communities. So far, these measures have been extremely successful at keeping Territorians safe.<br \/>\n\u201cConversely, the United States has more than 1.2 million active cases of COVID-19 and President Trump\u2019s handling of the crisis has been nothing short of a disaster.<br \/>\n\u201cThere have also been serious COVID-19 outbreaks on the USS Kidd, USS Theodore and many others.\u00a0 This risk is further amplified by a decision by the US military to clamp down on publicising the number of cases there are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcbhawaii.marines.mil\/Coronavirus\/\">\u00a0<\/a>amongst deployed forces due to security concerns.<br \/>\n\u201cNoting that Darwin has already had returning Australian troops come in with COVID-19 from overseas deployments, I urge you to reconsider the allowing\u00a0 Marine Rotational Force to go ahead over the next couple of week.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is absolutely no reason to put communities or the health system in the Top End at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has expressed deep concern that the United States Marine Rotational Force will be going ahead in Darwin in early June. \u201cAll military cooperation with the United States in Australia must cease while the threat of COVID-19 remains high to protect people in the the Northern Territory, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/us-marine-rotational-force-must-not-go-ahead-in-order-to-protect-territorians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Marine Rotational Force must not go ahead in order to protect Territorians&#8221;<\/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-6721","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\/6721","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=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}