Tag: Australia

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 08:02 UTC

  China slaps 80% tariff on Australian barley alleging subsidies and dumping

  

  Australia is “disappointed” China has imposed massive tariffs on its barley and will consider taking the dispute to the World Trade Organization, the country's agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  Beijing disappointed with Australia: suspends meat imports from four abattoirs

  

  China has suspended meat imports from four Australian abattoirs, fuelling concerns that escalating tensions between the two nations are damaging Australia's most important trading relationship.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 06:41 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand considering a “travel bubble” between the two countries

  

  New Zealand and Australia are discussing the potential creation of a “travel bubble” between the two countries, sources said on Monday, even as Australia reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in two weeks.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 17:13 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Australian PM thanked Uruguay’s humanitarian action

  

  After the departure from Montevideo of the last medical flight with passengers of the stranded Antarctic cruise Greg Mortimer, the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, sent a letter to Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, acknowledging the action of his government for its collaboration with Australian citizens.

• Saturday, April 11th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  “Gracias Uruguay”: stranded “Greg Mortimer” Australian cruisers will be back on Easter Sunday

  

  With a large improvised banner reading “Gracias Uruguay” (Thank you Uruguay) on starboard the COVID-19 infected “Greg Mortimer” finally docked in the port of Montevideo on Friday and at 22:00 Uruguay hour started the medical evacuation of over a hundred cruisers from Australia and New Zealand who are to be charter flown to Melbourne, and expected to arrive on Easter Sunday.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Australian police raids “Ruby Princess” cruise and seizes black box

  

  Australian police raided the coronavirus-stricken Ruby Princess cruise ship and seized its black box as part of a criminal investigation after thousands of passengers were allowed to disembark in Sydney and 15 people later died of the illness.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  COVID-19 infected “Greg Mortimer” Australians expected to leave for Melbourne on Saturday

  

  The sanitary charter aircraft contracted to repatriate Australians on board the coronavirus infected “Greg Mortimer” cruise, stranded off the Uruguayan coast is expected this Thursday in Montevideo, and will be flying to Melbourne on Saturday according to foreign ministry sources.

• Monday, April 6th 2020 - 11:22 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” off the coast of Uruguay has 81 passengers tested positive

  

  Eighty-one people on the Greg Mortimer cruise ship, which has been stranded off the coast of Uruguay for almost two weeks and has over 90 Australians on board, have tested positive for coronavirus.

• Monday, April 6th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Carnival's “Ruby Princess” with its crew docks in Australia and is subject of criminal investigation

  

  Carnival Corp's troubled Ruby Princess cruise liner, the biggest single source of coronavirus infections in Australia, docked south of Sydney on Monday to get help for sick crew members requiring urgent medical treatment.

• Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Australian cruise vessel stranded in Montevideo; following medical checks, healthy passengers could be released

  

  Uruguay's foreign and public health ministers have said that none of the over 200 people on board the cruise vessel Greg Mortimer will be allowed to disembark in Montevideo for the moment since several passengers and crew members seem to have coronavirus symptoms.