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Will we see stranded Aussies at home for Christmas?

Steve Evans
Updated November 30 2020 - 2:39pm, first published 2:30am
A passenger from a repatriation flight from Singapore makes her way to a bus to hotel quarantine after landing at Canberra airport. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
A passenger from a repatriation flight from Singapore makes her way to a bus to hotel quarantine after landing at Canberra airport. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

In September, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he hoped to have "as many people home, if not all of them, by Christmas" - though he has since conceded this may not be possible because the figures have changed.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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