Ganesh Sahathevan

by Ganesh Sahathevan Australia's ABC  and others I am sure are describing  Democrat Vice President nominee Kamala Harris as an African American. She is in fact part Indian and part Jamaican  . That heritage reminds this writer of Mira Nair's 1992 production, Mississippi Masala which starred Denzel Washington Jr. Washington played the part of an African American in an interracial relationship   with an Indian woman.  This writer can recall commentary at the time which described the movie aa a depiction of African men who seek Indian women as a substitute for the white women they prefer. It does seem as if Joe Biden has also made that sort of choice. END

by Ganesh Sahathevan Four of Victoria's new coronavirus cases are linked to an outbreak at the Stamford Plaza in Melbourne. (ABC News) The reporting on Victoria's WuhanCovid "second wave" has assumed that the outbreak has been the result of breaches in quarantine protocol at the Stamford and Rydges hotels in Melbourne. Examples of the reporting are as follows. From the ABC on 13 June 2020:  Six of the new cases were detected in mandatory hotel quarantine, while the other one person is a household contact linked to an outbreak at the Rydges on Swanston hotel cluster. The Rydges hotel in Melbourne's CBD has been used to quarantine returned travellers and is now linked to 17 infections, including a number of contractor security guards working at the hotel. The Age newspaper on Saturday reported allegations of lax hygiene standards  during the quarantine period. Again from the ABC, on 19 June 2020:   The state recorded 13 new cases of coronavirus ove