I admire your optimism. I on the other hand a planning to spend Christmas in Singapore for first time.

Yes, we have a flight booked to Australia early December. We will apply for permission in November, ,before we are booked, for an exemption to leave Australia again at the end of January, but we are nasty Australia citizens living abroad, and actually even worse - we're pure evil as we've already had two stints in HQ. I suspect we won't be back for Christmas. Even if targets are reached, it will take months of dithering for them to decide how to change the rules and what the new rules will be.