All borders to reopen.

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Completely ommitting that he is preventing australians returning to australia. I know someone who missed the last weeks with his mother life and her funeral because the national border laws which are his domain is preventing thousands of australians return

Need to dig a bit deeper.
The number of people allowed in each State from overseas is set by the States, not the Feds.
The excuse is that they do not have enough hotel accommodation to quarantine greater numbers.

By Kelsie Iorio
Posted Thursday 9 July 2020 at 7:26am

This comes after the Victorian Government requested international arrivals be diverted away from Melbourne while it manages an ongoing rise in cases, the WA Government moved to limit people returning to Perth from overseas to 525 a week, and NSW also arranged a cap on international arrivals at the request of the State Government.

The number of Australian citizens and residents allowed into the country will be slashed to ease pressure on state and territory coronavirus quarantine systems and free up resources to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne.

Key points:

• The number of people allowed into Australia each week will be reduced to 4,000
• All jurisdictions will move towards charging people the cost of mandatory quarantine
• It is hoped the reduction will ease the hotel quarantine burden on states and territories

National Cabinet has agreed to cut the number of people coming home to Australia from approximately 7,000 to just over 4,000 each week, which amounts to a reduction of about a third, according to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

States and territories have complained of the burden of hosting returning Australian residents and citizens in hotel quarantine, with Mr Morrison flagging earlier this week that a limit would be introduced.

"We agreed today to a reduction in the number of inbound arrivals into Australia across those ports that are able to accept returning Australian citizens and residents," Mr Morrison said after National Cabinet met this morning.

It is not confined to Oz,

Neighboring New Zealand introduced measures earlier this week to limit the number of citizens returning home to reduce the burden on its overflowing quarantine facilities.