Why are Australians so accepting of hotel quarantine? A long history of confining threats to the state
- Written by Amy Nethery, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies, Deakin University
It’s been a year since Australia introduced its policy of mandatory hotel quarantine for returning travellers. In the past year, some 211,000 travellers have been confined for two weeks in hotel rooms, in conditions many have found difficult to endure.
The policy remains one of the main reasons the Australian community has managed to escape...





