Why are more than 25,000 Australians still stranded overseas, six months into the pandemic?

How arrival caps and soaring airfares have left tens of thousands desperate to return

When international borders shut at the beginning of the pandemic in March, tens of thousands of Australians living and travelling overseas upended their plans and began to return home, as the government told them to.

Australia’s first wave of Covid-19 was largely attributed to the hordes of international arrivals, who were testing positive during their stays in mandatory hotel quarantine.

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