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Regional Australian quarantine hubs pitched by billionaire airport owners
16 Feb, 2021 02:31 AM
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2000 quarantining travellers could be housed at hubs based at Avalon Airport. Photo / File
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By: Ellen Ransley
Pressure is mounting on state and federal governments to relinquish hotel quarantine to dedicated regional hubs, with two Australian billionaire businessmen leading the charge.
Weeks after John Wagner was approached by the Queensland government, a bold new plan to house returning travellers has emerged out of Melbourne s second international airport, owned by Lindsay Fox s company Linfox.
If the proposals are successful, at least 2000 Australians could be housed at hubs based at Avalon Airport, 50 minutes southwest of Melbourne, and at Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba, 90 minutes from Brisbane.
“So, this shows once again a government that follows, doesn’t lead,” he told reporters in Sydney.
The federal government has signed contracts with logistics companies DHL and Linfox to deliver vaccines from March. Accenture will track vaccines and PwC has been contracted to administer the rollout.
In December Albanese set off the vaccine debate by arguing it made “no sense” to delay the rollout after approval was granted.
On 4 January Prof Raina MacIntyre warned in a YouTube video presentation that delaying vaccinations until March “may be costly and may lose us the opportunity for herd immunity [before] mutant strains become more dominant”.