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In fairness, I think those "different reasons" are pretty significant (preventing people from fleeing oppression vs controlling the spread of a disease). You can criticize Australian COVID controls as heavy handed without comparing them so directly with a repressive dictatorship.

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Australia requires people to get a government permit to leave the country and they deny most of the requests! I don't care if they say it's medical, it's a major problem and means Australia has fucked up policies.

So if it's medical and not at all like Belarus's policy, why discuss it here? Post a submission on Australia's travel ban and discuss it in context there?

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