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Australia reopening borders to tourists on Monday
The hill ^ | 02/20/2022 | Olafiamihan oshin

Posted on 02/20/2022 1:48:49 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Australian authorities said they plan to reopen the country's borders to international tourists on Monday after closing it for nearly two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported.

Since November, Australia has allowed citizens and residents to travel in and out of the country, then admitted international students and some employees. On Monday, leisure and business travelers will be able to enter the country, according to Reuters.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; borders; reopening; tourists
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The bastards made me sit in a secure waiting room for 7 hours in Perth because no one came to announce the flight I was connecting to so I had to wait for the next one. American citizen with a Dip passport and they wouldn’t even let me go out to the lousy food court in the airport and come right back. I hate Australia.


21 posted on 02/20/2022 2:24:58 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My sentiments exactly.


22 posted on 02/20/2022 2:34:32 PM PST by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can anyone say, “Hotel California”? If you go, they may not let you leave.

It’s like doing tourism of the Uyghur slave camps in China, now.


23 posted on 02/20/2022 2:34:48 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: RBW in PA; AndyJackson

Agree with all that....not to mention it’s 17 hours in the air from California just to get there.

No thanks 👎


24 posted on 02/20/2022 2:35:48 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: RBW in PA

Yep. Who needs a camp as their accommodations following a 15-hour plane ride?

They can’t be trusted.

The shenanigans of the past two years has greatly lessened my desire for international travel. We went to South America in 2016 and Europe in 2019.

There must be years of good behavior by foreign leaders before I even consider leaving the US again.


25 posted on 02/20/2022 2:38:48 PM PST by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Note to Australia’s Deep State: You couldn’t pay me to go now.


26 posted on 02/20/2022 2:40:36 PM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Screw that. I wouldn’t travel to Australia if they offered me my own kangaroo.

Fascist bastards.


27 posted on 02/20/2022 2:42:45 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: mewzilla

But that won’t stop me from calling their tourist Bureau and wasting a bunch of time , ending up with the Covid protocols and say something like “No need to visit your NAZI state, we already have that here”.


28 posted on 02/20/2022 2:43:03 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: RBW in PA

While you’re there? For all you know they might change the rules before the plane lands and you’ll be lucky if they generously allow you to get a return flight at your expense instead of going to the camp at your expense.


29 posted on 02/20/2022 2:45:48 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve always thought it would be neat to go there, but not anymore. It’s not worth the risk of ending up stuck in some isolation camp. If they treat their own citizens badly, what would they do to a visitor?


30 posted on 02/20/2022 2:45:51 PM PST by KittyKares (Trump put us in the room; now we're putting ourselves in the room. - Steve Bannon)
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To: mewzilla

DITTO (with EVERYONE on this thread)!


31 posted on 02/20/2022 2:48:02 PM PST by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: V_TWIN

I did eight hours to and from Europe, packed in like a sardine. I enjoyed the flights, because I always have a window seat and I like to look around. I saw the Eiffel Tower, Normandy Beach, three of the Great Lakes at once, vast miles of Canadian wilderness, the town of Penzance, and green Irish countryside, all from the plane window.

Seventeen hours is another matter, especially if there are a bunch of psychos at the other end of the flight who may decide to never let me leave, based on the whim of whatever nutjob is in power at the time.

Australia is off my bucket list. The kangaroos will have to get along without me, somehow.


32 posted on 02/20/2022 2:52:27 PM PST by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I feel the same. No longer have the desire to visit Alcatraz down under.


33 posted on 02/20/2022 2:55:13 PM PST by Cecily
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Me too; but, I don’t want to visit a fascist country.


34 posted on 02/20/2022 3:03:08 PM PST by GingisK
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A few new banned dictatorships on my list
Australia
New Zealand
Austria
Canada


35 posted on 02/20/2022 3:03:21 PM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: Cecily

Tahiti’s worse.


36 posted on 02/20/2022 3:04:33 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Reily

...a profit?


37 posted on 02/20/2022 3:04:33 PM PST by GingisK
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ditto that. I’ve always wanted to go there, but they’ll never get any tourism $$$ from me.


38 posted on 02/20/2022 3:09:20 PM PST by simpson96
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I really don’t know how much the rest of the world beyond FR knew about the devastation of civilization in Australia, but I would not be betting on the Aussie tourism trade at this time.


39 posted on 02/20/2022 3:09:35 PM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: simpson96

“Ditto that. I’ve always wanted to go there, but they’ll never get any tourism $$$ from me.”

Australia, New Zealand and some others on the same list for me.


40 posted on 02/20/2022 3:14:08 PM PST by nomorelurker
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