{"id":8768,"date":"2020-10-16T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2020-10-16T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:09:53","slug":"morrison-must-urgently-increase-resources-to-get-stranded-australians-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/morrison-must-urgently-increase-resources-to-get-stranded-australians-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison must urgently increase resources to get stranded Australians home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Foreign Affairs spokesperson Senator Janet Rice said Morrison\u2019s delay in getting stranded Australians home is unacceptable and has called on the government to urgently increase federal resources to boost quarantining capacity across the country.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Rice said<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u201cMorrison has finally acted in announcing an expansion to quarantine facilities at Howard Springs, but it has taken him too long, and the solution is nowhere near good enough.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the Prime Minister has been gallivanting around Queensland on the campaign trail, almost 30,000 Australians have been waiting anxiously to find out when they\u2019ll be able to see their families again.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s delay has been devastating for Australians and their families stuck overseas. Over and over again we have heard heartbreaking stories of Australians who are separated from their children, from the medical care they need and from their jobs.<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact that tens of thousands are still waiting to get home is an indictment on Morrison\u2019s inaction.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens have repeatedly said that most Australians wanting to come home can\u2019t wait until the end of the year \u2013 they are desperate and fearful of yet again having flights cancelled. Not only that, as the virus continues to impact travel in other countries, getting home could become even harder for many.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government urgently needs to increase federal resources to boost quarantining capacity across the country. Only then will Australians be able to get home when they need to and at reasonable cost.<br \/>\n&#8220;With transport networks all across the world in disarray, the government must also provide assistance for Australians to reach the point of departure. Otherwise, many would-be travellers could be watching a crucial lifeline leave without them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Foreign Affairs spokesperson Senator Janet Rice said Morrison\u2019s delay in getting stranded Australians home is unacceptable and has called on the government to urgently increase federal resources to boost quarantining capacity across the country. Senator Rice said: \u201cMorrison has finally acted in announcing an expansion to quarantine facilities at Howard Springs, but it has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/morrison-must-urgently-increase-resources-to-get-stranded-australians-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morrison must urgently increase resources to get stranded Australians home&#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-8768","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\/8768","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=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}