Michael Gebicki

Landed last night at Sydney coming in from Doha and we waited in a parked aircraft for 25 minutes, doors shut while paperwork got sorted. Turkmenistan, Russia, India, China - park the bird and the doors pop open as soon as the airbridge connects.

New Zealand opens for fully vaccinated Aussies from April 12. Bring it on!

Forget about the directive from the Council of Europe, Australians are not and will not be banned from entering Europe. France, Italy, Germany, Spain etc will all welcome you, provided you’re fully vaxxed.

#DjokovicOut there’s probably a bed on Nauru while his appeal is heard.

The NY Times is publishing a heart-churning report of civilian casualties caused by the US in its hands-off air war in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the same US wants to prosecute Julian Assange for the crime of truth telling.

Test positive for COVID overseas and you can only get on a plane to return to Aust with a doctor’s cert saying 14 days have passed since onset and you’re no longer infectious. So let’s wait and see what happens with Barnaby.

The US is calling the drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 innocents including small children “a tragic mistake”. And those words pretty much sum up the whole story of the US and the other neo-imperialists’ involvement in Afghanistan.

If you’re coming into Aust and you’re fully vaccinated, if you’ve got a negative test result before boarding the flight and if you test negative on arrival, why do you have to spend a single day in quarantine? Makes no sense.

WARNING SHOCKING AstraZeneca side effect!!! Second shot Thurs at Lakemba and straight after I was overcome by a powerful desire for LEBANESE FOOD!!! Happily this struck close to glorious Lazeez in Haldon Street, multiple courses later was right as rain. BEWARE!!! https://t.co/z7c6IPiMLq

Qantas uses a bodgy lab that gives false positive readings for Australians stranded in India. Government ramps up the fear factor, blame shifts for the stuff up, delays border opening and gets to hold a pandemic-panic election. Smell a rat?

Having botched the vaccine rollout, our government needs to keep us locked in to avoid a catastrophic outbreak. Aspiring international travellers have become collateral damage for government ineptitude.

It’s now slowly dawning on our govt that if they stop us from travelling overseas until 2023 they’ll have to cough up a motza to keep the tourism industry from dying.

Australians can fly quarantine-free to New Zealand from late April 18: Ardern - The Age woo-hoooo!!!! Finally, we’re out of the cage folks. https://t.co/Gc2Oeu5TQL

Another day, another fresh story about the LNP hurting, insulting, assaulting and behaving disgustingly toward women. The LNP has a cancer culture and the PM is clueless. https://t.co/Lx9te0F9rC

Bring it on! This needs to happen since governments might soon mandate COVID-19 tests for all air travellers. If so the alternative might be rapid at-airport testing and that’s going to hobble the air travel recovery. https://t.co/hjPx4aajAW

Scott Morrison thinks our travel industry will be ok because domestic travel will replace the income lost to the shutdown in Australia’s international travel. This is our very own Marie Antoinette with a 2021 version of “Let them eat cake”

There goes the neighbourhood..... Banned almost everywhere else, US tourists are finding an alternative route to Europe https://t.co/rKMSCuz8ZF via @TravellerAU