I don't really care about coronavirus because I work at home and entertainment in the form of gambling on my phone too https://online-casinos-australia.com/real-money-pokies/ so I'm constantly busy. It's good that now they have invented everything for the convenience of staying at home.

The problem isn't the lockdowns.
It's the returned travellers, end of story.
They're the ones keeping this nation hostage.

Look at this:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/man-misses-birth-of-his-child-after-request-to-leave-brisbane-hotel-quarantine-was-ignored

Demanding the rules be set aside for them.
Doesn't matter that he lived and worked and called Qatar home for the last 4 years, he's got to get back so his kid can be born in Australia, with all the benefits this provides.

Doesn't matter if the hospital staff or the rest of the citizens of QLD are put at risk from an outbreak.
Why didn't they go back to Melbourne, if that's where they're from?

If getting back to Australia in time was so important, then why didn't they organise themselves to be back in the country earlier?

- No, it's everyone's else fault that you got you missus pregnant whilst living in Qatar...

This is the what the rest of us are left to deal with, and the reasons why this crap is like the neverending story.

Armchair, did you actually read the SBS report you linked to?

>Demanding the rules be set aside for them.
No, requesting an exemption to attend the birth of his child.

>Doesn't matter that he lived and worked and called Qatar home for the last 4 years,
>he's got to get back so his kid can be born in Australia, with all the benefits this provides
They're Australian citizens, so that's perfectly reasonable.

>Doesn't matter if the hospital staff or the rest of the citizens of QLD are put at risk from an outbreak.
Considering both parents had been fully vaccinated and tested negative, surely the risk was acceptably low?

>Why didn't they go back to Melbourne, if that's where they're from?
Because they were in quarantine, of course!
Getting into any part of Australia is hard enough as it is - nobody in their situation would refuse the opportunity just because they'd have to quarantine in a different state.

>If getting back to Australia in time was so important, then why didn't they
>organise themselves to be back in the country earlier?
How much earlier? There appeared to be plenty of time, but unexpected complications occurred while they were inn quarantine, and the baby came ten weeks early.

If it is good enough to work & pay taxes & make a life somewhere else, then it should be fair enough for them to have their kids there. They have no right to expect to be able to use Australia as a safe haven in times of strife just because they were born here.

This goes double for people who have gained permanent residency, but chose to live most of their life in their country of origin. The last thing we need is to be used as a convenience by foreign nationals, who demand "repatriation" to Australia when it is not actually their home, & they feel no allegiance to Australia.

I can see no reason to endanger the health of genuine Ozzies in returning such people to Oz at this time, & despise those who bleat we should do more for such people.

Hasbeen,

I agree with you regarding both of the groups of people you mention. The High Court has found that the government's emergency powers outweigh citizenship rights in this case. I'm well over the shock/horror media reports of "Aussies" not being able to get "home".

People will remain frightened if they don't ask questions, or if information is kept from them, as it is in Australia.

In the UK, for example, a much more open and enquiring society than ours, it was easy to find that the total number of deaths in 2019-2020 were the same as the yearly average for the previous 10 years.