Re: Is Australia the New North Korea?

Australia closes its borders and doesn't even allow its citizens to come back

This is not true. Australian citizens have an automatic exemption to travel restrictions into Australia. Australia does, however, restrict its citizens' ability to leave the country.

Their border policy is very popular and is intended to stop the spread of covid into their country. Unfortunately, they have been slow at distributing the vaccine, which ultimately would give way for them to open up their borders again.

It was a last month what I based the comment on. They made it illegal for own citizens from returning from India.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56953052

I don’t like that restriction. I am not familiar with Australia law/Australia constitutional law, so I don’t know the chances of the law standing.

With that being said, the pandemic has been going on for over a year, and India has had COVID problems for months now, so if someone wanted to return home after living in India has had a long time to do so. If someone is not already in India, they should not travel there. They always have the choice of quarantining for two weeks in a country other than India. I would not call this law akin to NK policy. North Korea is known to shoot people entering their country on sight, with no warning.