This is a world where where fully vaccinated travellers have already spread Covid to every country on Earth and at least 72 countries are happy for you to turn up on their door with your tourist dollars and without a vaccine.

As Senator Rennick says: "I cannot for the life of me see the health risks in an unvaccinated person leaving the country."

Paul Kelly, Australia's Chief Medical Officer explained that it was due to Australia's International Health Obligations. That's an international treaty we signed because we're a member of the WHO. As far as a quick search turns up, Australia, Canada and the UAE may be the only nations still banning their own citizens from leaving. In Canada, things are so inexplicable, the vaccinated don't even need to do a test anymore. So people infected with Covid are free to fly in or out of Canada shedding virus everywhere.  But healthy unvaccinated people "will need to be tested at the airport and again eight days after arrival, and isolate for 14 days." Righto.

The Australian PM Scott Morrison keeps telling us he opposes mandates, yet he hasn't said "boo" about this international treaty. Indeed, if the Australian government was set up as a subsidiary wing of Pfizer and Moderna, they could hardly have done more to lift profits

Below Senator Rennick asks Paul Kelly, Australia's Chief Medical Officer, at the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee why unvaccinated Australians can't leave the country. It may take two repeat-viewings to get the message, there is no sunset clause on locking in the refuseniks.