• As an observer from the USA, the Covid testing requirement to return to the USA after international travels has been in place for 6 months or so (even if you're vaccinated); and the testing requirement for arrival in Europe was standard for the past year, until recently.The reality is that only w...

  • Is Qantas even an airline anymore?  What's the point?  I hope Australians remember, when this is all over, that Qantas walked away from a country still repatriating tens of thousands of people, and walked away from people trying to visit their families overseas.

  • It looks to me that VIC is doing better than NSW right now.

  • There are no Covid-related entry requirements if you are coming from Australia, providing there is no transit in a third country that the USA has designated as high risk.  For Australians, that probably just means China, but Brazil is another; and Europe is a third.You are no longer required...

  • But the whole world has recognised that locking up your own citizens, preventing them from exercising a basic human right for month after month, when less than 10% of all transmissions are from returned travelers, when there's a greater likelihood of an Australian getting Covid  at the AFL t...

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  • Are the flight restrictions worth it?

    Aug 07, 2020, 04:31 AM

    A week after the last post on this subject, and I find it all a bit frustrating. The reality is that Australia's border policy has not worked significantly better than other countries who allow their citizens to come and go; we are the ONLY democratic country in the world that has banned its citi...

  • Are the flight restrictions worth it?

    Jul 17, 2020, 02:52 AM

    More to the point, someone should take the restriction to the High Court: https://www.traveller.com.au/covid19-pandemic-and-border-closures-why-australians-are-banned-from-international-travel-h1pds6

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