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‘Fortress Australia’: Why calls to open up borders are meeting resistance – Yahoo News Australia
Many Australians are loath to relax border controls despite experts warning of the harms of isolation.
Australia plans to keep its borders closed against Covid for another year at least
Australia has been one of the world’s Covid success stories, where infection rates are near zero and life mostly goes on as normal.
That’s in large part thanks to the early move to shut its borders – a policy that has consistently been supported by the public.
But after a year in the cocoon, there is growing unease in the country over the so-called “Fortress Australia” policy.
Recent announcements declaring that Australia…
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