He probably wanted to get out of Australia ASAP in case the officials wanted to put him in a COVID-19 Concentration Camp.
Never would believed freedom loving Australia would turn to Nazism.
Australia had concentration camps already in World War I, long before the Nazi party was invented (for immigrants born in Austria-Hungary...probably for those born in Germany too...even if they had sworn allegiance to the King of Great Britain and were willing to fight for Australia in the war).