Nearly 15,000 foreign millionaires have been granted access to Australia since the start of the pandemic.Australia has form in border restrictions – not only was there the strict naval quarantine during the last great pandemic, the Spanish flu in 1918, but the White Australia policy of around the same time restricted immigration from non-Europeans.
Even the requirement for people holding temporary visas for Australia to get an inbound travel exemption is legally flimsy, according to some experts. Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of immigration, said there was no good legal basis for requiring someone with a valid visa to also obtain a travel exemption. There is a public health clause in the Migration Act but Rizvi says “legally it would be a stretch” because you would have to prove the person actually has COVID-19.
“We are an immigrant, multicultural nation. And we are a trading nation. You can’t separate our society, culture and economy from the rest of the world. Yet there’s a significant section of our population that seems perfectly content with having our borders closed indefinitely. [It’s] fed a public mood of protectionism.”
But now that we have safe and highly effective vaccines, if enough of the population is inoculated, the number of people getting seriously ill with the virus will plummet, putting it closer to something we can live with, such as flu. Based on modelling by the Doherty Institute,aged 16 and over have been fully vaccinated.
Sherryn_G niltiac Missing another point. If you manage to get one the repat flights (2100gbp), you go to NT (2500 - 2 weeks), then find your own way to Sydney for example, then quarantine (3000 - 2 weeks). They really don't want us coming back at all.
Sherryn_G niltiac QUOTE: “There are automatic exemptions for Investment Visa Holders” - basically if you have money you can still come and go as you want