Australia locks out its citizens in extreme new Covid policy

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SYDNEY — Five years jail and a $51,000 fine: that’s the price Australian citizens can expect to pay if they’ve been in India and try to board a flight home to Australia in coming weeks.

The new border policy, announced under the country’s Biosecurity Act without public consultation at midnight Saturday, may have ramifications for what it means to be a citizen in a democracy.

A democratic government’s fundamental allegiance is to protect its citizens: but if your country won’t allow you to return home when you’re in danger, what then?

Critics of the new policy say that instead of rescuing stranded Australians their government is abandoning them, in breach of its obligation under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his [or her] own country."

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That seems a tad bit extreme to me...
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Go away. They could accomplish the same thing with ankle bracelets and cattle pens.
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I agree, that's -way- too extreme. There is the notion, expressed in that covenant, that a country cannot deny the entrance of one of its own citizens. Otherwise, it's a mandated exile, which only shitty little countries would do. Modern and progressive governments have no business engaging in any sort of non-voluntary citizen exile. They can accept the entry of their citizens and *then* put them in involuntary internal exile at designated hostels at the government's cost.
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Hey.

Didn’t the Brits try to refuse reentry to some gal who took an Al Qaeda vacay?
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Charliesheen wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 3:37 pm Hey.

Didn’t the Brits try to refuse reentry to some gal who took an Al Qaeda vacay?
Shamima Begum, she was denaturalised on security grounds. Not just denied reentry, she actually couldn't be if she were still a citizen though she could be arrested at the airport. She appealed it to the Supreme Court and lost, still in Syria.
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Wouldn't a law like this have some kind of provision for a person wanting to return and voluntarily quarantine for 2 weeks or something? I can certainly see using a fine to stop people from just coming back in otherwise.
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The law they are using requires a proportionate response to the threat, it'll most likely be overturned by their courts on the basis that not allowing people to come in and quarantine is unnecessarily harsh. Eventually.
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