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    "title": "'Come And Witness Dead Bodies On The Street': Michael Slater Continues To Lash Out At Australian PM ",
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    "excerpt": "Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater has lashed out at his country's Prime Minister Scott Morrison for being insensitive to Australians stranded in India. The cricketer-turned-commentator ask",
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    "editor1": "<p>Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater has lashed out at his country&#39;s Prime Minister Scott Morrison for being insensitive to Australians stranded in India. The cricketer-turned-commentator asked the PM to take a private jet and witness the dead on India&#39;s streets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Amazing to smoke out the PM on a matter that is a human crisis. The panic, the fear of every Australian in India is real!! How about you take your private jet and come and witness dead bodies on the street!,&quot; Slater tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amazing to smoke out the PM on a matter that is a human crisis. The panic, the fear of every Australian in India is real!! How about you take your private jet and come and witness dead bodies on the street!<\/p>\r\n&mdash; Michael Slater (@mj_slats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mj_slats\/status\/1389880437523161094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<p>Slater&#39;s comments is a continuation of war of words between Slater and Morrison over the government&#39;s decision to not allow players returning from the Indian Premier League (IPL) to enter the country due to Covid-19 fears.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Slamming Morrison&#39;s decision to ban flights from India, Slater -- who left the IPL bio-bubble and flew to Maldives after Australia suspended flights from India till May 15 -- tweeted:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If our Government cared for the safety of Aussies they would allow us to get home. It&#39;s a disgrace!! Blood on your hands PM. How dare you treat us like this. How about you sort out quarantine system. I had government permission to work on the IPL but I now have government neglect<\/p>\r\n&mdash; Michael Slater (@mj_slats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mj_slats\/status\/1389147322425110541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<p>Australian cricketers in India have been left stranded following Aussie PM&#39;s decision and are looking at different routes to return to their country. On Wednesday, CA clarified that the BCCI is looking to send the players via Maldives and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is also rumoured that the Australian government may impose hefty fines if they try to enter the country by taking circuitous routes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Morrison, though, had termed Slater&#39;s &#39;blood on his hands&#39; comments absurd. The Aussie PM said that the likelihood of jailing or fining the cricketers was &#39;highly unlikely&#39;. He, however, defended the ban on flights from India, saying, &quot;This is about getting more people home safely, preventing the third wave here in Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I think the likelihood of any of that (imprisoning or fining) occurring is pretty much zero,&quot; Morrison told Nine&#39;s Today show.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Australian government had on Friday threatened its citizens returning from India by taking alternate flight routes with a five-year jail term or a hefty fine. The decision was taken after a meeting of the Cabinet in a bid to keep the Covid-19 surge in Australia under check.<\/p>\r\n",
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