Australia’s Efforts to Return 30,000 Stranded Aussies Not Enough for Labor Opposition

Australia’s Efforts to Return 30,000 Stranded Aussies Not Enough for Labor Opposition
Passengers arrive at East Hotel after disembarking their flight from Delhi to Canberra, Australia on May 15, 2020. Rohan Thomson/Getty Images
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The Australian government has helped repatriate around 30,000 Australians stranded overseas during the CCP virus pandemic and expects to help thousands more get home by Christmas, but this is not enough for the opposition Labor Party.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison believes that the 26,700 people who registered in September for assistance to return to Australia should be back by December. But he said that the cap placed on hotel quarantine by the state and territory governments to protect the health of Australians has “constricted” the progress.

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