>threatening Australian citizens with jail time if they try to return to their country. // This seems like an obvious expedient during a pandemic? I guess, if

>threatening Australian citizens with jail time if they try to return to their country. // This seems like an obvious expedient during a pandemic? I guess, if you can set up facilities (crucially staffing) to allow repatriation with full quarantining that may be preferable. How would you rather they behaved? Allowing non-essential international travel is idiotic in such circumstances.