Noting this foolishness going around - each of the States has a broad “police power” to make laws in order to “…safeguard the health, morals and safety of its inhabitants.”: R v Smithers (1912) 16 CLR 99 at 106-108 per Griffith CJ, at 110 per Barton J, at 111 per Isaacs J.
https://twitter.com/Liseylou12/status/1411574666364211209
There is an old saying that free legal advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Some of the takes on the Commonwealth, the States, and Quarantine, have verged on the insane. And that is from people professing to be practising lawyers.
If you reside in NSW, you are subject to NSW's public health orders. No court is going to sanction you endangering public health during a pandemic. If you wish to change a law or regulation or order, then speak to your local Member of Parliament. That is how the system works.
In 1918-1919, despite some Australians being away fighting for 4+ years, so bad was Spanish Flu, that it delayed repatriation to families anxiously awaiting them because of State Quarantines - went all the way up chain of command to the Governor-General
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1223123703317200896
Will go out on a limb here and suggest that your 'constitutional challenge' to assorted State public health regulations (during a pandemic) will probably not fare any better than whatever claims may have been made for 1st AIF veterans delayed from returning from WW1.
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