Ian Lloyd Neubauer is a freelance journalist based in Southeast Asia.
Four to five years. That has always been my answer when people in Asia ask me how long I think Australia will remain closed and prevent its own citizens from traveling abroad since the country enacted one of the world's toughest border restrictions at the start of the pandemic.





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