Chief Minister Andrew Barr follows Dominic Perrottet in announcing his government is ready to go on international arrivals

The Chief Minister announced Friday that fully vaxed international students will be allowed into Canberra for the start of the 2022 academic year with no need to quarantine.

Of course, “students will need to follow all Australian Government vaccination and testing requirements for international arrivals.”

Which is where the hard work has to happen – organising a vax evidence system for internationals is going to be hard, but as Mr Barr makes clear that it is not his problem.

As did NSW’s Premier Perrottet when he announced his government “would welcome fully vaccinated arrivals”

Mr Perrottet gave PM Scott Morrison not a lot of options but to respond, “the Federal Government is not opening it up to anything other than Australian citizens and residents and their immediate families,” (CMM October 18).

The feds are on a hiding to nothing until they have a vax id system for arrivals, including students, that works – the Commonwealth Government either upsets the international education community by not allowing students in or it runs the risk of students bringing COVID-19 in from overseas, which would not go down well with all voters.