Deputy Premier M_McCormackMP has called on states to increase their hotel quarantine capacity in order to lift the international arrival cap by 2,000 additional people each week.
|Deputy Premier Michael McCormack has called on states to increase their hotel quarantine capacity in order to lift the international arrival cap by 2,000 additional people each week. Mr McCormack said over 30,000 Australians have registered their interest to travel back to Australia with DFAT and overseas embassies.
A Labor repatriation plan to assist overseas Australians to return via chartered RAAF flights has been criticised by Coalition members who say the reason it is so difficult to travel to Australia is because of the cap on hotel quarantine numbers set by states and territories. Under the Morrison government's new proposal, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland have all been asked to expand their hotel quarantine program to make room for 500 additional people per week.
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