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Should Aussies stranded overseas go to the United Nations for help to get home?

  • Written by Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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More than a year since COVID-19 emerged, there are nearly 40,000 Australians overseas who want to come home.

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Amid mounting stories of people desperate to return for financial, family and personal reasons, Australians are stuck because of government caps on international arrivals, transit-countr...

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