Australian PM orders all foreign tourists home after fury at bad behaviour

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Australia's Prime Minister has told all foreign visitors and students to leave the country now amid fury at backpackers for failing to follow social distancing rules. It comes after one hostel in Sydney was shut down after police were called to break up a party, while tourists also packed on to Bondi Beach despite warnings not to gather outdoors.

A cluster of cases among backpackers was also traced back to two parties at nightclubs near Bondi Beach in March, even as the government advised people not to take the threat of the virus lightly.

British backpacker Peter Leggatt then prompted further outrage when he suggested that people were simply 'jealous' that backpackers were still having fun.

There were more than 1million people in Australia on visitor and student visas on December 31 - thought to include tens of thousands of UK and US tourists - though it is unclear how many remain in the country. Scott Morrison said that while those with essential skills - such as visiting doctors and nurses - will be encouraged to stay, it was past time for everyone else to 'make their way home'.

There are fears that backpacker hostels could become hotbeds of disease
(pictured, a hostel in Bondi that was forced to shut after an outbreak there)


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8184065/Australia-tells-foreign-visitors-make-way-home-coronavirus-crisis-intensifies.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Idiots. Ruined it for everyone else now. Well, they'll pay the price as some of them are ...

getting sick already and I suspect that they are going to be in limbo land, just like those on the cruise ships, where countries will not let these people onshore when they come back home.

[Codeine]

2. Some people are desperately lacking

a brutal punch in the fucking teeth.

[CatMor]

3. Do they have a Death Wish ..

it doesn't make sense.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. No they have a huge sense of entitlement.