After happily voting for Scott Morrison, I had to do a double-take at his statements over the weekend about keeping Australia closed; not only to visitors who are not rich or famous — hi, Matt Damon — but to citizens that want to travel out of the country. He actually said that he did not see there was demand for overseas travel.

I can personally put him in touch with dozens of people that have been denied permission to travel for all sorts of personal and family situations, and dozens more that have been refused exit permits for business, and there...