19 months on from the pandemic and there are still around 40,000 Australians stuck overseas and unable to return home due to: 1) prohibitive arrivals caps and quarantine limits; and 2) extortionately expensive airfares and quarantine costs.
Rather than developing solutions to bring stranded Australians home, our politicians are more interested in importing cheap migrant workers for farmers:
International Development Minister Zed Seselja… will on Tuesday announce overhauls of the Pacific Labour Scheme and Seasonal Worker Program, broadening access to workers and removing barriers for farmers and businesses…