Fines up to $66k or five years prison for Australians returning home from India

I'm an Australian living abroad, and from my perspective this is consistent with the government's messaging from the beginning: "come home now or be prepared to stay were you are for an extended period of time." Unfortunate as it is, Australians were told to make a decision early last year. It's ultimately unfair to other Australians who have made sacrifices to keep Australia effectively Covid free if others who decided to stay abroad all rush home whenever things get bad in their necks of the woods.

It’s for reasons like this that the American tradition of defending civil liberties and the Constitution is so important. Clearly some Anglosphere countries without this tradition have no issues violating it when convenient.<p>To think - thrown in prison for returning to your own country. It’s completely absurd.

Feel obligated to say this “law” of the Australia government is an operational definition of a “shithole country” ....

This makes me wonder about, how cargo is currently handled between India and Australia?

This is pretty lame for a government to do. People pay huge taxes there for policies that 5 yo could come up with. What all those advisors get paid for? If I was Australian I would demand my taxes back.