Actually, if you read what
@Seat0B actually said, it is that the government hasn't made any adjustment or improvement to HQ in over a year. And it is pretty damn close to the government simply saying 'nah, you can't come in'. The Victorian government has struggled more than anyone with their pathetic management of hotel quarantine in 2020, causing significantly more deaths than any other state. Yet, they are allowed to decide when to stop international arrivals, when to start again
and also allowed to host a tennis tournament with 1200 foreign arrivals, half of which were allowed to have 5-hour long outdoor breaks!
NZ has suffered less than Aus in terms of Covid-19, yet, their residents have never been banned from leaving the country.
The fact that you sit there and defend the government over this, when there is a continually growing list of tens of thousands of Australians stuck trying to get home is beyond me, but they have had a year to fix this. And yes, as it stands, the result is an
arbitrary denial of citizens exercising their right of return to Australia, because there are ways around this, and there is data and evidence to prove it.
For a start, there is solid data regarding the vaccines, which have now been in mass use since December last year. Secondly, there is data with regards to vaccine from trials that began in July last year. The vaccines work.
The Federal government has decided to sit and watch while vaccine deployment began all over the world because they were not in a rush. Then, they have completely butchered the program, after a delayed start and are no where near their targets. Then, they have decided to not set targets because of how bad it is all going for them. What's left to defend?