Inside Australia's Covid Internment Camp
It would be interesting to see a discussion of how other Australians feel about this write up. I think its quite unbalanced. Anyone who doesn&#x27;t want to do something which they are directed to do can build up a picture of oppression. This is not a concentration camp, and she wasn&#x27;t sentenced, and the article points out of her own volition she misled authorities about her test status. It is an internment camp. It is used for both voluntary and involuntary internment&#x2F;quarantine.<p>Our response to the pandemic deserves criticism. I think this person misjudges community expectations quite severely. The NT has some of the most vulnerable people, a large aboriginal population with significant co-morbidities. If C19 got into the wider community in the NT, which is per-capita under-funded and lacks significant healthcare investments of the southern states, it would be a disaster.<p>Would home quarantine have worked? Probably. I might add that based on this writing, I would have seriously questioned this individuals personal commitment to stick to the obligations of home quarantine, which I know is judgemental of me.<p>Howard Springs pre-dates the pandemic: <i>An accommodation facility named Manigurr-ma Village was built at Howard Springs in 2012 by Japanese energy company Inpex to accommodate up to 3500 temporary fly-in fly-out construction workers on the Ichthys LNG gas plant.[10] The facility was closed and abandoned in 2018.</i><p>It consists of demountables, and has had post-pandemic modifications such as fencing, segregation of areas within the complex, additional health facilities. I do not imagine it is a nice place to be overall (although, for the refugees locked up in detention by Australia for over 8 years, it might be heaven by comparison with their experiences)<p>I don&#x27;t like the current federal government, I didn&#x27;t vote for them and I think they are morally bankcrupt. Howard Springs is not the evidence, or related to that.