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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It is a penal colony. Can we send them thousands of recent illegals?
Thanks
Before there was Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor there was Hickam Field and Naval Station (NS) Pearl Harbor.
Thanks, but I got it above. BTW, wasn’t it Hickam Army Air Field? Could be wrong.
Hickam Field was the vernacular because after WW2 the field did double duty as a civilian airport.
Thanks for the correction.
The Aussies should be rioting in the streets demanding immediate new elections and hounding government officials pushing this tyranny. Government officials should have angry mobs outside their offices and homes demanding their resignation. The country should be shut down with massive strikes until new elections are called. Remember how the Poles defeated the Communist regime.
Australia is still a penal colony? I didn’t know that.
Why would anyone want to leave the California of countries?
While some requests have been processed promptly, other applicants say they've received no response at all from the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Border Force, even after the international flights they’d booked had long departed.
Over 1,000 people have shared their ‘travel ban’ experience with Executive Traveller since the restrictions took effect in March 2020 – a hefty number, given less than 3,000 exemptions had been granted by the government as of mid-May.
Damn. Epsteins island and Australia have something in common.
It’s a penal colony.
And here I was thinking that I should be living on the Gold Coast! LOL
Same here. A while back I had a decent job offer in Sydney. Decided to stay stateside because of family, friends, etc.
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