“If you are an Australian citizen you have the expectation that you can always return home when you need to,' Matthew Spence, who works in the aviation industry in Malaysia, said.
that Australians living overseas had had “many opportunities” to return to Australia: “If they're choosing to do so now they've obviously delayed that decision for a period."
But paying for quarantine is a disincentive for Jo Cox, who lives in Singapore with her husband and three children. John Patkin, a researcher who has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years, said he was considering returning to Australia but not until he can secure a job. “I would hope the cut in arrivals would not affect Australians who had a genuine need to return,” he said.
Carlos Haddad, 31, is from Melbourne and is working in I.T and marketing Dubai. He's planning to stay in Dubai unless he loses his job and his work visa is cancelled.
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