Australian judge upholds temporary ban on Indian travel

The government imposed the Indian travel ban on Apr 30 to relieve pressure on quarantine facilities for returned international travellers. The ban will be lifted on Friday when a government-chartered plane is expected to repatriate 150 of the 9,000 Australians in India who want to come home.

The second two parts are based on constitutional grounds so require more notice for a court hearing than Newman’s application last week for an urgent hearing allowed. The hearing was initiated before the government announced that six chartered flights would bring Australians home before the end of May. The government has yet to decide when commercial flights will resume.

The ban is the first time that Australia’s Biosecurity Act has been used to prevent Australians from returning home.Newman’s lawyers had argued the ban violated a fundamental common law right of citizens to enter their country of citizenship.Australia has used its geographic isolation as an island nation to its advantage in fighting the pandemic. It has been among the most successful countries in preventing the virus’s local spread.

The Federal Court has yet to rule on a challenge to Australia’s tight restrictions on its citizens leaving the country for fear that they would bring the virus home.

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