You may have heard a bit in the news about 'flight caps'.
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To most of us, it probably sounds sensible - to carefully limit and control the number of entries to Australia during the coronavirus pandemic, so as to make sure the virus doesn't spread, the system isn't overloaded and quarantine can be provided.
But if you think about it a bit more, a few questions may emerge.
What about the (reportedly upwards of) 100,000 Australians who are waiting overseas to get on a plane?
How do they live if they have wound up their affairs overseas and have no home or job, and have been repeatedly, and without warning, bumped from flights?
If other countries have rescued plane-loads of stranded citizens, why can't we?
Why are exceptions being made for the powerful and famous?
Why do people who can afford the atrociously inflated seat prices get to jump the queue?
Why is hotel quarantine - with all it's deficiencies - being used, when people already in Australia who actually have the virus can isolate at home?
This post on the Facebook page Just Trying to Get Home sums it up well:
I feel overwhelmingly angry when I hear Scott Morrison repeatedly say he "asked Australians to return home on March 17" (according to the generic letter his office sends us).
On March 17, Covid-19 was rampant in Europe - I followed DFAT's advice to stay put as we had secure jobs and as an asthmatic it was already too risky to be flying.
On March 17 I had been mobilised to work on the Covid-19 response. I was proud to be an Australian helping the UK survive the crisis.
On March 17 my mum didn't know she had advanced stage 4 cancer.
On March 17, I didn't know the Australian Government would decide that seeing my dying mum would be a luxury, not a right.
On March 17, I didn't realise that Australia - my country, my home - would decide that I was somehow less Australian because I wasn't in Australia.
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How disingenuous of the government to put it like that.
More than disingenuous - blatantly unfair.
Even the airlines have had enough.
The industry body representing international airlines has warned its members will have no choice but to stop flying to Australia if arrival caps aren't increased.
The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA) said on last week that its members "cannot be expected" to "continue indefinitely with such flights on a commercial basis".
We all know there is a problem.
Basic maths would tell you that: 100,000 into a handful of sparsely seated flights per day just doesn't go.
So what we therefore need is a different solution.
We can all agree we need to be careful about entries to Australia.
But there are other ways to do that without the pitting rich against poor, and Aussie against Aussie.