Fortress Australia leaves border firmly shut and people stranded in India I The Brief

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00:00 The Brief: Australian Politics Explained, May 2021

00:09 The federal government banned flights and threatened jail time and fines in an extraordinary intervention aimed at keeping people in India and COVID-19 out of Australia.

02:32 Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down his second pandemic budget that forecast “Fortress Australia” will remain for at least another year.

07:49 The Brittany Higgins scandal again caused headaches for Scott Morrison’s government, but across the political aisle, frustration was growing that Labor was struggling to capitalise on vaccination and quarantine bungles.

09:49 Scott Morrison checks out the Trans-Tasman bubble, with a visit to New Zealand for talks with Jacinda Ardern.

11:22 The impact of the National Party win in the NSW by-election in Upper Hunter.

12:34 Victoria facing another lockdown, bringing the vaccine rollout into stark relief.

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