The federal government has banned Australians who normally live in other countries from returning home without needing government permission in a move branded as “barbaric.”
The amendment, which cannot be disallowed, “will reduce the pressure on Australia’s quarantine capacity, reduce the risks posed to the Australian population from COVID-19, and assist in returning vulnerable Australians back home,” the government said. Turbitt said the government’s changes were aimed at citizens like him and that it was “barbaric and counterproductive”.“I came back for the passing of my mother, I was locked in a hotel room while she passed away, denied an exemption to see her, and now I am subjected to proving my life overseas, in order to leave again?” the 35-year-old said.
“The [Queensland] Premier goes overseas to the Olympics, the Prime Minister goes to check out his family history in England. if they tried to return home from India during the height of its recent COVID wave. Several Australians who had been trying to get home died in India.
Is this another case of public health vs interest of a few thousand Aussies? Yes. Not pleasant, but necessary for the good of the majority.
This tyrannical regime has to go
And we have quietly accepted this, cause the bogans at the back of a centrelink line love it and it's how slowmo and co will win the next election. Hand dole bludgers free cash and keep foreigners out
This is absolutely disgraceful. Another low for a Government which is already as low as a snake’s belly 🤬
Reading this article makes me even more sure that we are living in North Korea. It's suffocating and the government is denying its citizens a basic right to freedom of movement. And no one is doing anything about it 😡
We have lost the plot. So now being Australian effectively means nothing. Is there anything that they value more than a COVID case? This madness needs to stop. It's not the plague, what happens if we have a real dangerous disease? a spanish flu scenario? No light in homes?
So another bad policy to band-aid over the damage caused by the previous bad policies. Worst. Govt. Ever.
We are in a pandemic and Australia uniquely has a large migrant population with close family overseas who have already been impacted by the border closures for a longtime, this is just vice versa nothing worng it restrictions should impact everyone equally, fair outcome.
Australia is truely a prison island again. Only country to ban its citizens from leaving.
To be fair this incompetent government can't get the Aussies already stranded home
Criminal politicians lock everyone down whilst they fly out to Cornwall, Tokyo and wherever they like
This is insane! Can’t believe it. Australian citizenship has no value.
So I have to choose between being in Oz to hold my mum’s hand as she dies from cancer or being allowed to come home to London where I work and live with my family? What kind of cruel country does this?! strandedaussies are citizens too - I am just heartbroken.
I would like to know which party is going to fight for us Aussies overseas?
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