DFAT’s one law for the rich and another for the poor travel advisory policies.
With the smoke only just clearing from the flaming car that was driven into the front of Glasgow airport allegedly by two doctors and Londoners still reeling from the fact that car bombs were planted right in the middle of the West End, less than a week later, DFAT has amazingly downgraded its travel advice for the UK.
While the UK has lowered its threat level from “Critical” to “Severe”, indicating that the situation is still very serious, DFAT has lowered its advisory from “high degree of caution” to “exercise caution.
At the same time, DFAT refuses to lower its advisory to Fiji, a country where since the coup on December 5 2006, there has been no violence, there have been no bombings and there have been no real threats to anybody’s security, the travel advisory to Fiji amazingly remains at the same level as the UK – “exercise caution”.
Surley, this has to cast into some doubt the process that DFAT appears to go through in deciding and issuing travel advisories, with questions being asked about the international political motivation of some of them and the reliability or relevance of others, with earlier this year DFAT issuing a Travel Advisory about the risk of driving on wet roads in Ireland!
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