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Campaigners trying to help tens of thousands of Australians stranded overseas want more to be done to get them home, saying the millions promised in the Federal Budget for repatriation flights isn t enough.
A total of $180m has been earmarked for special government-facilitated flights to help the 34,500 people who have told the government they want to get back.
Travellers usually have to pay for their ticket plus $3000 quarantine.
The SMH reports the budget money will help fund 100 flights for some 17,000 Aussies - about half the number currently registered - to get home from around the world.
It will occur over the next year.
Stranded Australian citizens petition the United Nations
The Australian government’s actions in effectively denying the fundamental democratic right of tens of thousands of citizens to return to the country, amid the worsening global COVID-19 pandemic, are so egregious that a United Nations body has declared them unlawful.
The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ruled that the government must “facilitate and ensure the prompt return to Australia” of three citizens who have been stranded overseas since the pandemic began.
Air New Zealand flight arriving at Sydney airport (Source: Wikipedia)
The three citizens filed a complaint with the UNHRC against the Liberal-National government on the grounds they have been denied a basic human right to return to their country of citizenship.
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Dear all,
On this ANZAC Day long weekend, I hope you are feeling solidarity not only with freedom fighters of the past but with the increasing numbers of people in Australia and the world today who are coming to understand the folly of lockdowns as a response to Covid-19. Notwithstanding the recent snap lockdown in Western Australia, with other Australian states promptly restricting free border crossings of travellers from WA, the recent protests in London and many of the resources and information below show the slow turn of the tide. I continue to hope that we will be free to live and travel unencumbered by blanket restrictions in the name of Covid by the end of this year or early 2022.
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