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| Subject: OZschwitz Gulag: ‘I’ve escaped!’: Aussies use Kiwi bubble as back door to defy travel ban Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:24 pm | |
| Australians desperate to return to lives and loved ones overseas are using the New Zealand travel bubble to defy the outward travel ban, despite threats of hefty fines or even jail time.
Art teacher Tim Byrnes is one of the first Australians to make it out via this route, flying to Auckland last week and then to Istanbul on Friday night. He is travelling on to Russia, where he had been living since 2016 and is eligible for residency.
“I’ve escaped!” he said. “I get to go back to my life.”
The travel bubble opened on Monday, allowing people to travel freely between Australia and New Zealand without quarantine. The deal does not involve New Zealand stopping Australians from onward travel and The Sun-Herald and The Age have spoken to many Australians keen to exploit this loophole.
Elaine from Sydney’s northern beaches, who requested her last name be withheld, said she was in “total despair” about being separated from her family in Britain and planned to leave via New Zealand if she could not get an exemption.
.https://www.smh.com.au/national/i-ve-escaped-aussies-use-kiwi-bubble-as-back-door-to-defy-travel-ban-20210422-p57lne.html |
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| Subject: Re: OZschwitz Gulag: ‘I’ve escaped!’: Aussies use Kiwi bubble as back door to defy travel ban Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:50 pm | |
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