Since early March, nearly every traveller stepping foot on Australian soil has spent two weeks in mandatory hotel quarantine.
But the quarantine system that has helped keep COVID-19 at bay has kept citizens, residents, workers, students and tourists at a distance, too.
More than 30,000 citizens are stranded overseas wanting to come home, hundreds of thousands of overseas students can’t come to Australian school and university campuses and the agriculture sector is desperate for workers.
With a vaccine still some way off, National Cabinet is looking at different approaches to quarantine that…
