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    India Ban, Repeat Flights ‘can Co-exist’ In Australia

    zenger.newsBy zenger.newsMay 11, 2021No Comments3 Mins Read
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    MELBOURNE, Australia — The India travel ban legally could remain in force while government-run repatriation flights operate, an Australian federal judge has been told.

    Bangalore-based Melbourne man Gary Newman has asked the Federal Court to scrap the federal government’s public health order that outlaws Australian citizens from arriving home from India.

    Prime Minister Scott Morrison had said publicly the controversial ban will no longer be in effect on May 15 when repatriation flights begin.

    But it could legally co-exist with government-operated repatriation flights, barrister Christopher Ward SC said.

    “That may not be what is intended … but it would be a possible construction,” the lawyer for Newman told the Federal Court on May 10.

    Ward had not been expressly told in any way the ban would not be renewed on May 15, he told Justice Tom Thawley.

    The federal government is defending the legal challenge, saying Health Minister Greg Hunt acted appropriately before making it.

    The order marked the first time the Biosecurity Act had been used to prevent Australian citizens and permanent residents from entering Australia.

    Ward said his 73-year-old client was in a particularly vulnerable health demographic and wanted to return home as soon as possible.

    Newman has been in Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, since early March 2020 having flown to see friends.

    His solicitor told the court the Australian-born man didn’t book a return flight until November 2020 on the understanding airlines were not operating regular, scheduled passenger flights. That flight home was canceled a week later.

    Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) reacts as he stands next to Paul Kelly, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, during a press conference at the CPO in Sydney, May 7, 2021. (David Gray/AAP Image)

    Hunt was required to consider whether the ban was no more restrictive or intrusive than was required in the circumstances or what other “less intrusive” measures were possible.

    But there was “no analysis whatsoever of the chilling effect” of criminalizing Australians’ return to home.

    “(The ban is) the most restrictive and intrusive method that could have been adopted,” Ward said.

    While acknowledging the “difficult position” Hunt faced amid the new Covid-19 crisis in India, Ward said that difficult decisions and “difficult parliamentary and political policies must still be governed in this country by the rule of law”.

    Australians had an “undoubted right to return” home under common law.

    “In our submission, section 477.1 (of the Biosecurity Act) grants the minister undoubtedly broad, sweeping powers to respond to biosecurity emergency, but it does not grant the minister broad sweeping powers to abrogate fundamental common law rights,” Ward said.

    Craig Lenehan SC, for Hunt, said the minister had properly considered advice from Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly and Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue QC before determining the action.

    (Edited by Vaibhav Vishwanath Pawar and Ritaban Misra. Map by Urvashi Makwana)



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