Cost of lockdown doesn't come out of the federal fiscus, which means @ScottMorrisonMP does not care.

I think it was Hunt during the week quipped back to a tv journalist, 'how long do you think that would take to build'? Didn't China build a whole hospital in a week?

What about using Woomera for the whole country's quarantine? Everyone enters Australia stays there for 2 wks, then flies on home. Has the big runway for large planes. The old detention center has a couple hundred rooms but if you needed to expand, i opal mine at Andamooka and..

You are missing their point..this way they spend nothing, and get to play politics and blame the states (obviously not NSW)

Morrison seems to be deliberately trying to send Victoria broke! That your plan @JoshFrydenberg ? #auspol

I know where they can save $600 million (now that the Nationals have won the by-election in the Hunter) that would be a great start to the construction of purpose built quarantine facilities!

No, solution is to ramp up vaccinations. Building a purpose-built quarantine will take at least a year and reinforces this closed border approach. EY estimates that the closed borders is costing the Australian economy $7.6 billion a month.

Yes, and as you have pointed out, a breach from an infection in hotel quarantine is about 1 in 170 infections - odds way too high in a densely populated city.

Prof is what’s the point of an AZ vaccine if it’s not even effective against the variants. Booked in this week, 64y & atypical asthmatic. Fit & healthy no other co morbidities.And won’t be fully covered till Sept.I’m having AZ, would prefer Moderna/Pfizer

If it is that simple, just focus on vaccinations, stop the lockdowns , you won't need quarantine facilities & you will save $1bn. All of these is a conversation that should have happened, maybe 15mon ago. Now this is just a waste of time. Even NZ doesn't have it. Time to move on.