![]() ![]() ![]() On Tuesday morning, Perth residents woke to a four-day snap lockdown after a local cluster grew to three cases. It shows how little respect they have for people," she told AFP.Īs well as Brisbane, surrounding coastal regions and the small northern city of Townsville are also subject to the latest order, after an unvaccinated hospital worker spent up to 10 days travelling around Queensland while infectious. "It's gobsmacking and they're just irresponsible. Less than five percent of adults are believed to have received both vaccine doses.īrisbane resident Nicola Hungerford, 57, said she expected lockdowns to keep happening "until the government gets their bloody act together" on the vaccine rollout. "I think the reason why so many Australians want to come home is because Australia is there home and frankly, I think when people start turning on their own fellow Australians like this - I believe it's un- Australian," Mr Turland said."We are having lockdowns in major cities because the overseas arrivals are bringing the virus here."Īustralia has been broadly successful in eliminating local transmission through a mix of border closures, mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals and snap lockdowns.īut it is now battling flare-ups of the highly contagious Delta variant - which first emerged in India - as public anger grows at the slow pace of vaccinations. Ms Edwards says it's easy to say "stop the flights, don't let any travellers in" to put a stop to the spread, but she says the people in need are the ones wanting to get back home, not take a holiday in Australia. ![]() "We will be reducing until the 15th of February - the caps on international arrivals in NSW, WA in QLD by 50 per cent," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. With the UK strain already making its way onto Australian shores, that's only going to get harder with the Federal Government introducing a raft of new protocols including caps on the number of flights and passengers coming in, compulsory negative coronavirus tests and masks being mandatory on all flights going forward. "It's going to be hard, my flight has already been cancelled once - I'm in a group of Aussies trying to get home and literally, so many flights are getting bumped and they are only letting x amount of people in a day," Mr Turland said. The new variant of the virus running rampant in the UK is leaving the thousands of Aussies based in England even more desperate to fly home. "I guess I was just waiting it out and in hindsight I should have gone home in March and I just thought it would get better and it didn't," she said. She flew to the UK in June 2019 with plans to work as a nanny and do bar work in London.īut she too had to make a decision to either stay or come home. It shouldn't hard to get us home we are Australian citizens and our government should be looking after us a bit," she said.Įmily Newcombe is another Aussie trapped abroad. "I think there needs to be a system in place so Australians can get home. That was in September and still she's had no word. "So, I actually signed up for the DFAT flights which are sending vulnerable Australians home - that's what they say." "I've been contacting so many people about this because that's a really big thing to overstay a visa - like you can have consequences in the future," she said. The other problem Ms Edwards has is her visa runs out in just two-days. That flight was cancelled because I actually found out they're selling ghost flights so they're letting you purchase the tickets on their website with no intention of you actually flying," she said. "I had a flight booked back to Australia since August with British Airways. Caleb Turland has lived in the UK for almost a year now. She has since been living in Manchester with her boyfriend and has desperately been trying to get home for six months now. Ms Edwards was working on Royal Caribbean Cruises as a dancer until the pandemic hit in March last year. "We're both at home, no jobs, no income it's a little bit stressful having to eat into our savings - and no help whatsoever." ![]()
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