Originally Posted by
Dannyboy39
I said like Nauru - where people are held like second class citizens. If Aus decided to hold people in these desert camps, it would massively hurt it’s international standing.
You're overlooking the FACT that a fair proportion of the returnees have spent their time overseas living in quarters that would make a desert quarantine camp look like a Kempinski penthouse.
For many of them, two weeks in a Mercure quarantine lockup will be the first and only time in their lives that they spend time in a star rated hotel.
It's 2 weeks FFS. Not a life sentence.
In addition to which, I doubt that our "international standing" would be hurt by one iota, let alone massively.