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Border closures must make way for national plan – The Australian Financial Review
Repeatedly slamming state borders shut – simply because they are there to be closed – is not a policy for managing the virus within Australia.
By and large the international border closure has worked. The states have been critical to that effort, by managing hotel quarantine in their respective capital cities. Viral escapes from quarantine hotels have been a common source of outbreaks, but every system will have a known weak point somewhere. The handful of incidents against more than 200,000 arrivals processed says the system largely works.
The states would hand over responsibility for their part in the international border to the federal…
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