We need to
“crack down” on the real problem. Rampant overreach.
On Thursday, the Western Australian premier Mark McGowan claimed that “more than 100,000” people had travelled overseas “unnecessarily”.
“They book a conference somewhere in Europe, then have a holiday, then come back and join the queue,” McGowan told reporters in Perth. “It’s just not right. We need to crack down on this.”
McGowan claimed that a “large group of people” have gone overseas on multiple occasions, increasing the risk of Covid-19 spread on their return and displacing returning Australians.
He cited the fact that of the 51,000 people who had been through hotel quarantine in Perth, 1,308 had been through twice, 506 people had been through three times, and 82 had been through four times.
McGowan called to “crack down very, very heavily on the number allowed to go overseas”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...o-fly-overseas
Correct me if I’m wrong but the halving of caps on international arrivals has come in the face of the ‘Delta’ strain of the virus, not because there has been another leak in the hotel quarantine system. A limit on arrivals has always been in place, it makes no difference if people head overseas in numbers, they know there is a queue to get back in. So instead of halving the caps, just do a better job of prioritising which people are permitted to enter Australia.