WA could accept more Australians travelling home from overseas if they could be quarantined in Commonwealth facilities including Christmas Island and the Yongah Hill immigration detention facility, the state's Premier Mark McGowan says.
The WA Government is willing to take on more Australians travelling home from overseas if they can be quarantined in Commonwealth facilities, Premier Mark McGowan said today.He says returning travellers could be housed at Commonwealth facilitiesThere has been a cap in place since July on the number of international arrivals allowed into the state each week of 525 to slow the burden on the state's hotel quarantine system.
"There is Christmas Island, there is Yongah Hill [immigration detention centre]. There are the defence bases with numerous accommodation facilities both in Western Australia and all over the country," he said. It comes after Federal Labor called for what it estimates to be 25,000 Australians stranded overseas due to COVID-19 border closures to be brought home.
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