{"id":22715,"date":"2021-05-12T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=22715"},"modified":"2021-05-12T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:11:16","slug":"nsw-labor-leader-jodi-mckay-mps-private-members-statement-regarding-the-current-india-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/nsw-labor-leader-jodi-mckay-mps-private-members-statement-regarding-the-current-india-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Labor Leader Jodi McKay MP\u2019s Private Members Statement regarding the current India travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jodi McKay, MP, NSW LABOR LEADER<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">There are 173 Australian children stranded in India without their parents. Australian citizens have been told they face fines of up to $66,000 and five years in prison if they attempt to return home. No such bans were ever introduced when Australians returned from the USA and UK during peak levels of COVID-19 transmission.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"attachment_14091\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14091\" class=\"wp-image-14091 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAE2-IMG_20181109_180819-250x243.jpg\" alt=\"Jodi McKay\" width=\"250\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAE2-IMG_20181109_180819-250x243.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAE2-IMG_20181109_180819-768x745.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAE2-IMG_20181109_180819-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DAE2-IMG_20181109_180819.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodi McKay<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Our Indian Australian community feels this ban is discriminatory and racially motivated. I implored those in the chamber tonight to imagine a situation where you\u2019re told you are no longer welcome in your own country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Australian and NSW Governments have a duty of care to their citizens.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We must do better to help our Indian Australian community.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JodiMcKayMP\/videos\/1580316842161634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch her speech on Facebook by clicking here<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MCKAY-LA-Hansard-11-May-2021-India-Travel-Ban.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">MCKAY - LA Hansard - 11 May 2021 - India Travel Ban<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Jodi McKay, MP, NSW LABOR LEADER There are 173 Australian children stranded in India without their parents. Australian citizens have been told they face fines of up to $66,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,462,230,6],"tags":[1013,253,1098,1097],"class_list":["post-22715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-governmental","category-hindus-in-india","category-slider","tag-covid","tag-india","tag-india-travel-ban","tag-labor-party","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22726,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions\/22726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}