Posted on 09/11/2021 9:12:33 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
August saw the highest number of Australians apply to leave the country over the past year.
According to figures from the Australian Border Force (ABF), 37,979 applications were received from individuals hoping to leave the country, with 14,900 of those looking to be overseas for three months or more.
A large portion of the applications—12,347—were rejected. Australia is one of the few countries in the world that require residents to apply for permission before leaving the country.
The latest figures (pdf) reveal that since January—when the ABF received 20,976 applications—Australians have continued looking for opportunities to leave the country.
“There are literally tens of thousands of people out there on social media and elsewhere saying we’re done, we don’t need this anymore,” Andrew Cooper, president of LibertyWorks told the Daily Telegraph.
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Recent figures have also revealed the damage lockdowns are causing Australians with mental health support service, Lifeline Australia, saying August was its busiest month on record.
One in four Australians also reported knowing someone who had committed suicide in the past 12 months, according to figures from Suicide Prevention Australia, whose CEO Nieves Murray said increases in suicide occurred during periods of major social and economic upheaval.
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Hotel California style Socialism.
Penal colony, revisited.
Is this from EPOCH Times or Epic Times??
Apparently, some of our dual citizens, who lived and worked in Australia are having problems coming back here.
Permission to leave? Are you kidding me? I had no idea Australia was that bad.
The ChiComs want to keep them there as part of the organ donor protocol.
In the late 1930s Germany refused to let Jews leave. And, just like Germany, Australia is building camps.
I guess they are describing an ‘exit visa’ system? How very Eastern-Bloc of them!
I remember when I was young. Australia let you become a citizen if you has a college degree.
Instead of C17s in muslim countries, we should be landing C17s daily in Ukraine, Belarus, South Africa, and Austrailia to evacuate oppressed, white farmers. Hand them an M1 Garand and a Beretta 92 from surplus stocks as they get off the plane. Give them 10k each, a fema trailer, obama phone, and freezer full of food, until they can get set up on the land.
ALL they have to do is go to Mexico and cross the border. That’s it.
We'll be seeing Australlian boat people shortly. Think of that.
How do they get to Mexico if they can’t leave Australia?
Land planes in those countries. Give them stuff and evacuate them where so they can get set up?
Australia requires an EXIT visa? That is something like maybe the Eastern Bloc under Soviet rule may have required.
Australia drifts ever further afield. The Chinese Communist Party wins that one.
For every one who actively seeks to leave, there are hundreds who cannot/will not because of family ties, relationships, financial reasons, health.
At one point in my life I thought it might be better to live in Australia. Glad I didn’t go!
They can’t come to the US, but they can travel to Mexico. Personal knowledge.
> Australia is one of the few countries in the world that require residents to apply for permission before leaving the country. <
As a matter of fairness, I must point out that this is entirely because of Covid. It’s not the normal state of affairs like, say, in North Korea.
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