Australians who live overseas will no longer be granted an automatic exemption from the ongoing international travel ban, meaning they will have to submit a "compelling reason" to return to their home.People are allowed to leave for a few reasons including work and compassionate groundsThe rule change quietly passed through federal Parliament this week, and has not been formally announced by the government.
Under the current rules, Australians have to seek permission to leave the country. Common reasons to leave are for work, urgent medical reasons, compassionate reasons or travel in the national interest. The federal government argued it had closed a loophole, and Australians looking to leave the country to return to their home overseas had had plenty of time to do so.Finance Minister Simon Birmingham said it was also about cutting down on the number of people making short trips abroad.
"And that just puts additional pressure and additional difficulties in terms of managing the finite number of places that can safely be administered for returning Australians."Murray Bruce is currently quarantining in Howard Springs with his family, having returned from the UK for the first time since the pandemic began.
Seems only reality TV guest stars can get in at the moment.
Your decision, sometimes bad decisions can be impossibly costly.
Why did you leave … vacation or work … freedom of choice … but sad that you are stuck 🤔
We all had enough of this sensationalism,the media now is not doing their job to protect the society instead they are sensationalising the virus, we will destroy the world if you don't stop with this virus nonsense now
Corona virus is just another virus as many others already out there,contracting it now has become a reason of shame ,HIV doesn't exist any more , people don't die because if cancer and simple flu ,we have lived among virus and bacteria since the world began ,vaccine is out there
So after 7 cancelled flights, $10k+ and mths of distress if I ever make it back to Oz to hold my mum’s hand as she dies from cancer I now need to beg to be allowed home to London where I live with my family? What kind of cruel country does this? strandedaussies are citizens too
It’s time to piss the Morrison government off
Or maybe just let fully Vaccinated Australians quarantine at home, like proper Adults 🤷🏼♂️
I think Australia has really lost the plot, so to speak. As we see with the current delta outbreak, the government’s strategy is not sustainable. We need a roadmap out of this madness and to stop being fortress Australia. The only people hurt are innocent Australians.
If people dont need to come home, then stay where you are. Only people that are in difficulty should be allowed home until there are no more needing to urgently come home due to no money and so on. Stop all other travel until they are home.
Feds just trying to avoid having to return aussies. Scomo doesnt want a repeat of they'll be back by xmas. Maybe he should have specified it was xmas in 2024, maybe? Surely unconstitutional to deny australians a way home. Stop all business travel until they are all home.
You can tell how selfish people can be when the country is facing a pandemic situation(after reading through all these tweets).These people want to travel to spread the virus. Some selfish Aussies who live overseas want to come here because of Covid, not they want to return home.
I left Australia in November 2020 and have no intention on returning but how man years are Australians prepared to put their lives on hold to appease government authority rule for the 'greater good' while the rest of the world adjusts to life with covid? 5 years? 10 years?
I'm far from any form of expert but doesn't the Australian constitution state that a person that is a citizen or naturalised through birth could NOT be stopped from entering Australia
It’s disgusting ! I haven’t seen two of my kids stuck in UK forced to be vaccinated or cease studies & still cannot come to Australia to see their parents. It’s inhumane and holds NO medical or science or MORAL justification. Then the 2nd gov inflicting hotel prison breeding camp
The corporations & the jetset are furious anyone dare impose on their lifestyles or wage suppression. The plebs are supposed to lock down, not them.
do you need tissues
Don’t bother coming back, we can’t wait to get out of here. Australia has lost its way. It’s a total policed country. No more freedoms here. Even have the military roaming the streets and enforcing laws…
People left when the borders had closed and knew what they were doing.
returnees just put additional pressure and additional difficulties in terms of managing the finite number of places that can safely be administered for returning Australians.' So nice just border hopping when they feel like it
it is a nuisance why did they come back n then wanting to go again? in a bloody pandemic Just insane
Can't they wait till the pandemic is over or atleast aliitle better ? I mean take a look at what's happening with NSW etc .
If you live overseas, you don’t call Australia home😎
Maybe people shouldn't be flying in and out for spurious reasons and expect the rest of us to dance to their selfish tune. Sorry but in a pandemic the greater good has to prevail and supercedes weddings, parties, funerals and illness. Get over it
Pandemic started when?
Australia ScottMorrisonMP government not only hasn’t solved the problems since beginning the pandemic but also inserts new problems for people and lives every day by ridiculous rules !
Oxymoron, Australians and living abroad, don't like it here, leave
No repatriations until 80% vaccination COVID19Vic
Why would you want to come back to Prison Island? When I get the opportunity to leave Fortress Australis, I'll gladly leave the shithole the LNPCorruptionParty LNPCrimeFamily LNPToxicCulture MorrisonFailure have made this once great country.
If you 'live' abroad, Australia isnt home, its your country of origin.
We can’t even go interstate and return how the fark does someone return from overseas
18mths Nuff said