Home quarantine is set to be part of the solution when Australia's borders reopen, but not everyone is convinced

When Paralympian-turned-coach Louise Sauvage returned from the Tokyo Games last month, she was relieved to serve out her 14 days of quarantine in her own Sydney home. Key points: Home quarantine trials are underway in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia However, the tourism industry says home quarantine won't be enough to kickstart widespread travel There are also concerns about the use of facial recognition to monitor compliance She'd been chosen by the New South Wales government to participate in a home quarantine trial, as the nation begins to move away from the use of hotels. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said home quarantine should be a short-lived solution, while the International Air Transport Association has reportedly labelled Australia's travel restrictions among the most draconian in the world. In a statement, the Health Department said it anticipated home quarantine would be used more in the future, but said unvaccinated travellers may still be going into hotel quarantine for some time. "The facial recognition and location-based data that's collected for the purposes of home quarantine is secure, and it's only used for those purposes it's not transferable for any other matters."