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Fully close the international borders – with no exceptions
Returning travellers have been the source of Australia's major outbreaks. We have to accept that quarantine just does not really work.
Andrew MohlContributorAustralia has been tantalisingly close to eliminating the coronavirus.
With the benefit of hindsight, we should have bitten the bullet back in March and closed the national border completely to international travellers.
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Andrew Mohl was a senior economist at the RBA and group chief economist at ANZ Bank, before becoming CEO of AMP and an independent non-executive director of Commonwealth Bank.
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