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Nearly 40,000 Australians are stranded overseas but the country still doesn’t have a formal date for its border to reopen and the only dedicated national quarantine facility isn’t yet operating at full capacity.
National cabinet has agreed to a staged reopening of the borders based on the proportion of adults vaccinated, although Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declined to put a timeline on when he thinks that will happen.
In late March, the Home Affairs Department was working towards reopening the international border on November 1, 2021, a briefing to new minister Karen Andrews released to Labor under freedom of information laws shows.