The policy doesn't exist anymore Ruby. It goes back 100 years and was dismantled in the 40s. It's law in Australia that race will not be considered when someone wants to enter the country.

did they actually say that? do you have proof?

You mean lostalex was spouting OTT off topic nonsense? D:

In a nutshell...

The media would have you believe this to aid the backdoor privatisation, but it isn't true.

Fear of being called racist, I assume

It's on youtube somewhere.

We can all die from an epidemic but as long as we're seen as politically correct it's all good. :smug:

hahaha! omg that made me lol

but yeah, thats ONE sentence and probably taken out of context

I very much doubt he wants africans banished from america foreves

as already mentioned, I don't think its racist to stop letting people in/or putting them in quarantine for a short while.

so many people slate fox news (i'm not really a fan myself) but i dont think its anywhere near as bad as people let on

That's good to know, i have relatives in Australia and thought it was weird that i'd never heard of this policy:wavey:

Having watched quite a bit of it I can well believe he meant it. Especially when Ann Coulter is on there. Raving lunatics. :laugh:

I certainly hope the NHS is never privatised, many of us would be thrust back into the Victorian age:shocked:

My thoughts are that we should be doing something now about Ebola and be putting proper contingencies in place, rather than to leave it until we are facing Ebola in our already stretched NHS hospitals, a questionnaire just doesn't cut it for me.

:joker:

It should've immediately been done from the start, really.

meh, maybe he did. You do get some crazies on that channel. At least you've actually watched and made your own opinion, rather than listening to what other people have said

'Ebola is a risk the UK can defend against locally
Emergency services, NHS and border staff have been meeting at local resilience forums to identify Ebola risks and to lay plans that will contain any outbreak'

There are contingencies in place, other than prohibiting people in from certain areas there's really nothing else we can do.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...-ebola-locally

People are now using Ebola to blackmail people :facepalm:

Some people have threatened to release Ebola in Prague if the government doesn't pay 1 Million Euros or some ting.

There is really nothing new in this at all, health control restrictions have been in place for many diseases for a long time - in many countries. For example, people from those counties with a significant Malaria risk have to prove that they have had immunization injections before being allowed in to many countries to stop the spread of Malaria.

:laugh:

It was only a matter of time

We aren't going to die though. Our government hasn't banned west africans from entering the country, and we still have no ebola cases. Screening is enough tbh.

yet

You always speak such common sense.

Real prevention is better than PC correct BS.

we tried to use this to get gaga to invite us on stage

but we had more of a 'Gaga, we have Ebola, please let us on stage' plea... it didnt end up too well