Well, it's 11:09am now and the booking system has completely crashed. 

I own a home near SYD and have thought about this for some time. It will depend on whether there's a requirement to quarantine within a particular radius of the airport and whether Queensland and other states will recognise the NSW home quarantine. Clearly a lot of policy yet to be written. 

Does anyone know if there's a way to find passenger numbers of completed flights? I am very keen to know how many seats are occupied on the flights out of Australia after the travel ban is lifted.  (I know ABS will publish border data but looking for more real time and granular data...)

This is a disaster. You might as well consider this a form of societal collapse for Australia. I don't understand how people can remain calm about this. We have idiotic politicians with far too much power right now. Something like this needs to go before Parliament!

As I said yesterday before this was announced - reducing the caps again is going to completely cut off Australia. How can an international airline operate widebody aircraft on an ultra long-haul route with only 17 passengers per flight?! This is an abomination. This isn't July 2020. There are thr...