Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the number of people allowed into Australia each week will increase by 2,000 next Friday, even though the Government is yet to get agreement from states that will have to house the extra people in hotel quarantine.
States and territories have been asked to boost hotel quarantine capacity, ahead of the cap increaseWA says it has been blindsided by the announcement
"They will go through the normal hotel quarantine arrangements. There is plenty of hotel rooms in all those cities."Yesterday the West Australian Premier Mark McGowan complained the Government had blindsided states and territories by announcing its desire to lift the cap without consultation."Ambushes like [this] should not be part of this … and they make me very, very, very angry.
"By raising it above the current arbitrary cap of 6,000 people returning per week, the government could have these people home in no time."
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