'He doesn't recognise me as mum': Durga hopes new travel rules will allow her 2yo son to come home

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'He doesn't recognise me as mum': Durga hopes new travel rules will allow her 2yo son to come home
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New travel exemptions allow adults to join unaccompanied minors on flights back home from India, where dozens of children are stuck without their parents.

Changes to Australia's travel restrictions have given Durga Gandham more options to finally bring her two-year-old son back home.Earlier this month, Senate Estimates revealed 209 Australian children were stranded in India without parents

"We can't let him be with a stranger for three days, because it will put lots of stress on that little brain," she said. Ms Gandham and her husband expected to join the young boy a few months later and fly home, but their tickets were cancelled because of the pandemic.All Australians travelling from India must spend three days before their flight in hotel quarantine, and the family had asked the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to allow Ms Gandham's brother to stay with young Vedansh.

Ms Gandham feels jaded by the recent policy changes for unaccompanied minors announced by the federal government.Separated by the pandemic, Vedansh's parents are desperate to bring him home.

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