Foreign workers should go home, says Australian government

Beachgoers stay out of water on Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday (April 12). Authorities have closed Sydney's Bondi Beach and increased police patrol in an effort to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Foreign workers in Australia who have lost their jobs in the crisis should go home, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Sunday. - AFP

SYDNEY: Foreign workers in Australia who have lost their jobs in the Covid-19 (coronavirus) crisis should go home, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Sunday (April 12).

"If there is no work for them, they can go back to their home country, that is an option for them," Frydenberg said on national broadcaster ABC's Insiders morning programme on Sunday.