https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-11- ... /100650132
Northern Territory's Chief Minister Michael Gunner has used a COVID-19 update press conference to denounce misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers and overseas conspiracy theorists who, he says, could harm Indigenous Territorians.
Key points:
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says there is "insane, unhinged stuff spreading online"
The misinformation is coming mainly from overseas, he says
He highlighted false rumours about the ADF during the current outbreak
For a while now, Mr Gunner has been taking bigger and more colourful swipes against people — including a US senator — who do not support his government's broad vaccine mandate or against anti-vaxxers more generally.
Today Mr Gunner took aim at "insane, unhinged stuff spreading online" that he said "overwhelmingly comes from people who don't live here and know nothing about us".
He said that "99.9 per cent of the 'BS' that is flying around the internet about the Territory is coming from flogs outside the Territory — mostly America, Canada and the UK".