Wednesday: Australians with adult sons and daughters living abroad told their children don’t count as ‘immediate family’. Plus: best music and films of 2021
Good morning. International border restrictions are stopping families reuniting at Christmas. Documents reveal the federal government was warned of the worsening security situation in Afghanistan in July. And the Guardian announces its selection of best albums and films for 2021.
Australians with adult sons and daughters living abroad are being told their children don’t count as ‘“immediate family” and don’t warrant exemption for entry into the country in the lead-up to Christmas. It comes as more countries impose travel restrictions on visitors from other parts of the world in order to try to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. In October, prime minister Scott Morrison announced changes to allow parents of Australian citizens to be classified as immediate family, allowing them to travel to Australian jurisdictions with 80% double-dose vaccination rates. But the same change has not been applied to adult sons and daughters of Australian citizens, who are non-citizens, live abroad, and are no longer considered dependent on their parents. “The stupid thing is that if we were in England, and our daughter was here, we could come in as a parent of an Australian citizen, but when it’s the other way around, she can’t,” one parent told Guardian Australia.
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