Stranded Australians are being reclassified to avoid embarrassing PM, Labor says

Penny Wong says Scott Morrison is more interested in ‘headlines than actually helping people’ after complaints about Dfat calls

Labor says Australians stranded overseas wanting to come home are being quietly reclassified in an attempt to avoid “bad headlines” over Scott Morrison’s failure to return them by Christmas.

On Sunday, the Sun Herald and ABC TV reported on the case of Laura Hartley, who found she and her family had been listed as “not seeking to return [to Australia] at this time” after she told the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade they had booked flights to return on 18 January.

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