Being an island nation, having a robust quarantine system for returning Australian citizens and permanent residents is the nation’s number one defence against COVID-19.
Without an effective quarantine system, Australia will continually import the virus into the community, resulting in ongoing outbreaks, an overloaded health system, and costly economic shutdowns.
Victoria is indicative of what happens when quarantine goes wrong. Here, the Andrews Government recklessly outsourced hotel quarantine to dodgy private security firms, rather than the Victorian Police or the Department of Corrections. These firms then used cheap untrained labour hire, resulting in widespread breaches, virus infections and community transmission:
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