Is Australia the New North Korea?

[hertznetwork]

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

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[nutildah]

Is Australia the new North Korea?

"What? No," say international economists. "Drawing that comparison is just weird."

[PrimeNumber7]

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. 

[Timelord2067]

OP:

You may as well add most, if not all South Pacific Island nations (including New Zealand and Australia) to your paranoid Fud.

Here in Australia, the number of locally acquired Covid cases are in the single digits and make national news headlines.

If the number of cases becomes double digits as has occured in Melbourne, Victoria, the entire region goes into lockdown until the outbreak is brought under control.

[hertznetwork]

And another example. Investigate an Australian politician and get charged as a terrorist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/nzjvmw/australian_counter_terrorist_police_arresting_a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[evilgreed]

               Reading this through the eyes of someone who doesn't actually live in Australia makes it very scary and a bit credible. But man, calling Australia as a country that is beeing the same as north korea is going a bit too far don't you think? You see, I can tell you that that really isn't the case since my older sister is living right there and has been there for many many years having a good job along with her other half that is currently working on the government. If there were anything wrong they would know first hand because of their jobs and so far, they haven't really said anything bad about how things are in Australia. So I think we should confirm first then wait and see if something big really does happen before jumping into conclusions that may mislead a lot of people.

[just_Alice]

I think it's irrelevant to compare the current regulations in different countries to what's normal. From that perspective, a year ago all counties were North Korea. It's natural that nowadays the countries want to close borders and do everything in their power to reduce total panic and maintain a functioning economy.

In North Korea, it has always been that way and will remain that way until somebody intervenes and does something serious about it.
People have literally no rights and freedom in there, they have no idea what's going on out there, total brainwashing, and the world doesn't know much about the inside life in there, they're totally cut out from this world.

Australia only does what needs to be done to ensure the safety and health of its population.