Sky News host Cory Bernardi says the Morrison government was right not to give special consideration to Australian cricketers asking to be flown home from India - after the government suspended all flights from India because of their Covid situation.
"By suspending flights, they have acted in the interests of those in Australia but there is an absolutely huge cost to those who are stuck abroad," he said. "But the government is caught in this compassion pincer movement.
"But on one side of it you've got a bunch of millionaire cricket players - they asked the prime minister to bring them home from India. "It stunk of an entitlement mentality from some of the most privileged sportsmen on the planet. "Remember, these blokes went over there, in the middle of a pandemic, because they were being paid millions of dollars to bonk a ball around. "The PM gave them short shrift.
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