Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Since 18 September more than 43,000 Australians have returned home. Over 17,000 of these passengers were registered with DFAT, including more than 3,700 vulnerable Australians. Since the government provided advice to Australians overseas to reconsider the need to travel abroad and to return home, more than 432,000 people have returned home—a significant number passing through the types of quarantine places established across Australia. Those quarantine places are capped and are limited. We are working, as we have been, as closely with the states as possible to make sure there are as many opportunities as can be for Australians to return home but to do so in a way that poses no threat to the safety of Australia and our management of COVID. (Time expired)