It seems a curious decision to permit entry to Australia for year 11 and 12 students from China.
From my recollection as a child, school students generally tend to mix more closely with 'playtime' and sports everyday, have more contact, playfighting, whispering to each other, passing notes etc, and a general propensity to 'jostle' more with each other than adults during the day.
Why can't School of the air be accessed by them instead, as provided for remote Australian children?
The decision seems caused by economic power of Universities who can thereafter argue that there is no reason why Chinese university students should not follow. There is significant lobby power in Education, combined with government fear of income loss.
With infection hot spots now appearing outside China, a longer incubation period suspected, higher transmissibility, persistent virus present in 'cured' patients, this decision seems poorly conceived.
The beginning of school and Uni semesters should not serve as some sort of imperative to act in this way now, when otherwise, we would wait longer.
If it is to proceed, despite the obvious risks, a quarantine of the maximum incubation period should be mandatory - without exception.
Personally, I would like to allow students to come here, but only on the strict proviso of real quarantine, not 'self-quarantine' where the virus is only spread by every shopping trip to supermarkets.
