QLD kills Morrison’s mad virus import scheme

Friday, 30 October 2020

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ruled out expanding international arrivals to include students, saying it would put too much strain on the hotel quarantine system.

She said the hotel quarantine was coping adequately with the arrival of 115o passengers a month and there was no need to increase that number at a time when the state had COVID-19 case numbers under control.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.