The opinion piece was addressing citizens, given we have caps atm my personal opinion is that the very limited places in HQ and on flights should be given to citizens first, then if space allows PR.
Andrews was proposing implementing rules to limit which Aussies can come home, in effect creating citizen classes and that is not acceptable.
If it were up to me i would close the loopholes for allowing non citizen, non PR family members arriving and delaying return of Citizens.
I'd personally block foreign sports teams and celebrities coming in as not necessary at all. If there are to be exemptions hard benefit of job creation would have to be shown and failure to produce real benefit subject to multi million dollar fines if benefitnot delivered., Australian taxpayers should not fit any part of the bill for those non citizen arrivals.
The restrictions on leaving are to my understanding to assist in not adding to the returns waiting list. That said I don't think its very hard to leave, everyone I know who has has cause from compassionate reasons and even one friend who went to Greece for fertility treatment were all approved.
If states such as Victoria pulled their weight on arrivals there would be less of a backlog and therefore less of a need to limit departures.
