Michael Gunner

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Born	Michael Patrick Francis Gunner 6 January 1976 Alice Springs, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Charles Darwin University
Interests	lockdowns
Party	Labor
Australian politician; Chief Minister of the Northern Territory

Michael Gunner is the leader of the Northern Territory government.

"International trolls" are spreading COVID vaccine misinformation about the Northern Territory.

COVID-19

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Australian Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner with a steadily expanding definition of antivaxxers.

As chief minister he oversaw the creation of the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility. Lockdowns in indigenous communities. The corporate media and politicians insist they support it even though their COVID vaccine take-up is much lower than the national average.

In November 2021, he was accused of using the army to hold down Aboriginals and force injecting them with Covid vaccines and dragging infected people to camps. Gunner blamed this on "international trolls".

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“The BS that’s flying around on the internet about the territory is coming from flogs outside the territory – mostly America, Canada and the UK,” Mr Gunner told a media conference on Thursday. People who have nothing better to do than make up lies about us because their own lives are so small and so sad. If anybody thinks we’re going to be distracted by tin foil hat-wearing tossers sitting in their parents’ basement in Florida – then you do not know us Territorians”
Michael Gunner (25 November 2021) 

He resigned as Chief Minister in May 2022.

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