'Proportionate to the risks the country faced'. The defence the government put up today over a legal challenge of its MIQ system, and the limitations it put on offshore New Zealanders.
The Grounded Kiwis group has been arguing in the High Court that border restrictions have breached the Bill of Rights.
Today lawyers for the government said people have to be alive and well to exercise those rights, and it was appropriate for a precautionary approach to be taken.
Nita Blake-Persen has the story.
