NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has agreed to the Commonwealth request that her state take an extra 500 international arrivals each week.
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South Australia has also agreed to bump up its international intake to 600 a week,from less than 240. Queensland and WA have been asked to add 500 each,doubling their weekly arrivals to about 1000. These numbers were informed by the Halton quarantine review.
"The Commonwealth government has made a decision that those caps have been moved to those levels and planes will be able to fly to those ports carrying that many passengers a week,"Mr Morrison said.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan said his state would need"significant Commonwealth support"to take an extra 500 people at such short notice,and continued to take issue with the federal government's handling of the issue.
"Bossing people around,basically saying they are just going to fly people in and dump them on our doorstep is not the way to conduct these matters,"he said.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he couldn't say when the state would resume its hotel quarantine program for international arrivals,which was scaled back in June after outbreaks in two hotels triggered a deadly second wave of coronavirus.
"There'll be a time for the resumption of those flights,"he said."I know it's frustrating but I can't provide a date now."
What extra support the states need,including Australian Defence Force personnel,will form part of Friday's discussion.
There are currently 160 troops helping WA's coronavirus efforts,including 48 providing 24-hour security at six Perth hotels being used for quarantine.
The accommodation industry says adding more people to quarantine numbers won't put it back on the road to profitability but will help hotels re-engage staff who have been stood down.
Tourism Accommodation Association chief executive Michael Johnson said there was"absolutely plenty of space"hoteliers would love to fill.
"Where the restrictions may lie is not necessarily in the capability or availability of hotels but it’s more the support required from the quarantine side of things,"he said.
"That’s the critical link and that’s probably where in some regards we’re seeing some of our state premiers actually not as open-armed as others."
The international border developments come as Mr Morrison's stand-off with Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk over reopening the state to NSW drags on.
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Mr Morrison said on Thursday he was"not expecting a lot of progress"from national cabinet over a COVID-19"hotspot"model to guide domestic border decisions,threatening to freeze Queensland out as the only eastern state to remain closed.
The Prime Minister is continuing to push his preferred hotspot definition,drawn up by the federal Health Department,of more than 30 locally acquired cases over three consecutive days in metropolitan areas – a figure that would mean Queensland's border would open to NSW.
"It may be we will have a border down between NSW and Victoria and South Australia before we have one down between NSW and Queensland,where the case numbers are radically different,"he said.