The federal government wants to lift the number of returning travellers permitted to fly home to Australia by pressuring states and territories to ramp up their hotel quarantine capacity.
Up to 2,000 extra stranded Australians would be allowed back into the country each week under the government's proposal.
He said the government also wanted to see these quotas rise in Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT. Labor has called for idle RAAF aircraft used by the prime minister and governor-general to jet around the globe be fired up to bring people back to Australia during the coronavirus pandemic.
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