Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident overseas from leaving

Re:Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident oversea... by gumby on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:36PM (#28077715)

I was glad for Australia’s straightforward “lock down to zero until we can do something better” strategy but since then several “better”s have arrived and the Morrison government has been unable to accomplish anything. In fact the whole lockdown regime appears to have been a lucky first guess, as no sensible action has subsequently been taken.

And locking your own citizens out has never been legitimately defensible. But Australia has long taken a “fuck you” attitude to her ex pats, unlike other countries who court them as valuable members of the country.

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Re:Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident oversea... by melbournegrad on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:24PM (#28081371)

Can you show me a country the size of Australia with <1000 COVID deaths?

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Re:Australia to prevent citizens ordinarily resident oversea... by gumby on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:23PM (#28081799)

Indeed, I think Australia got lockdown right to start.

However there were incoherencies in the lockdown (wealthy foreigners and Hollywood stars can come and go; few Australians can get home). The vaccine rollout has been a shitshow; I'm in the US, another nest of incompetence, and got my second shot in April while some of my friends back home (yep, in Melb) just got their first. And the financial support for people who are really suffering has been nothing compared to the States -- so much for helping the Aussie battler. No intelligent followthrough.

And let's not get started on Scotty jetting off to Cornwall uninvited for a seaside trip while everyone else is bottled up at home.

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