Australia’s hotel quarantine exemptions explained: Who can get them, what are the reasons, and who is making the decisions?

A leading Australian epidemiologist has slammed the decision to grant hotel quarantine exemptions to some celebrities as “totally unacceptable”.

The murky process of exemptions to Australia’s strict 14-day quarantine program was thrown into the spotlight again this week.

It was reported high-profile people like Matt Damon and Miranda Kerr had been granted permission to skip state-run hotel quarantine and instead isolate at luxury private…