The crew of the Ruby Princess, above, and passengers and crew from other cruise ships anchored offshore Australia could be safely isolated at any of Australia's detention centres.

Use detention centres to help deal with covid19*

by Peter Westmore

Having put in place a range of emergency measures to deal with the covid19 epidemic, the measured response of the Commonwealth and state governments – meeting as a national cabinet – is showing results, as the increase in the number of confirmed cases has slowed down.

If this trend continues, emergency and intensive-care wards in Australia will be able to handle the number of cases that emerge, unlike the situation in many other countries.

This is not to say that t…

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