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Hold Off On Traveling: $30K 1-Way Plane Ticket
Hold off on traveling: $30K 1-Way Plane Ticket. Critics condemned the move to temporarily bar citizens, including children from going home. Officials say the policy is necessary.
Before the coronavirus surged, Drisya Dilin dropped her daughter off with her parents in India.
Expecting to bring her home in Australia a month later. That was more than a year ago.
Now, any attempt to get the 5-year-old permanent resident home, brings a threat of jail time or large fines.
How does this impact affect others
This is one of 8,000 Australians affected by an unprecedented travel ban that began on Monday.
Prompted by India’s record-breaking Covid outbreak.
Australia is the first to make it a criminal offense for its own citizens and permanent residents to enter the country.
“I never expected this to happen,” said Ms. Dilin, a hospital administrator who tried several times to repatriate her daughter to Australia.
“She is missing us badly,” she said of her daughter. “She’s still counting days, thinking she is coming.”
When will things become normal
Much of the world has cut off travel to and from India as it grapples with an uncontrolled outbreak that is killing thousands of people every day.
Britain, Germany and the United States, while restricting travel from India, have exempted citizens and permanent residents, many of whom are rushing home.
Human rights groups have condemned the move as unnecessarily harsh and a violation of citizenship principles.
Other critics have suggested that the policy was motivated by racism or, at the very least, a cultural double standard.
Australia’s latest move fits a pattern. The island has maintained some of the strictest border measures in the world since the pandemic began.
No one can leave the country without official government permission.
Coming home from a country with declining infection rates, require government connections.
Celebrity status or luck, along with $30,000 for a one-way plane ticket.
The cost to pay
There are about 35,000 Australians overseas who have been unable to go home.
They have been unable to obtain seats on repatriation flights or because they have been unable to afford the tickets.
Australian officials said the new restrictions — with penalties of up to five years in prison and 60,000 Australian dollars ($46,300) in fines under Australia’s Biosecurity Act.
This would keep its hotel quarantine system from being overwhelmed.
“I thought our passports would look after us,” said Emily McBurnie.
Ms. McBurnie is an Australian wellness coach who has been stranded in New Delhi since March 2020.
Protection as a citizen
The Australian Human Rights Commission said the travel ban “raises serious human rights concerns.”
The agency called on the government to show that the move was not discriminatory.
While India has the world’s highest number of new infections, it also has an enormous population.
Australian officials have argued, however, that the move was purely based on an assessment of the risk to public health.
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