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Additional passengers from overseas will be landing in Australian states and territories whether leaders like it or not, the prime minister says.
"We've lifted the caps up not all the way up to where they were before, but I hope to get to that position in the not-to-distant future because we've got to enable more Australians to come back, we've got past that initial crisis," Mr Morrison said.Queensland, NSW and Western Australia will take an extra 500 passengers each week, while South Australia will take 360."Everyone will just do their job," Mr Morrison added.
"The Commonwealth government has made a decision, that those caps have been moved to those levels and planes will be able to fly to those ports carrying that many passengers a week."
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