Scott Morrison reveals when strict travel caps which have left 25,000 Australians stranded overseas will be lifted
Scott Morrison has revealed arrival caps preventing Australians from coming home will be increased in stages.
From 28 September New South Wales will take an extra 500 people per week and Queensland and Western Australia will take an extra 200 per week.
On 4 October Queensland will take an extra 300 per week and on 11 October WA will accept an extra 300.
The new cap numbers were agreed at National Cabinet meeting on Friday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the caps are being increased steadily because the states asked for time to prepare their quarantine systems.
He has offered extra ADF troops to enforce quarantine to help prevent the virus escaping as happened in Melbourne in late May.
Some 25,000 Australians are stranded overseas, unable to get a flight home because of the arrival caps which were introduced in July.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor meet steel workers in the control room during a visit to BlueScope Steel in Port Kembla, Wollongong, New South Wales on Thursday