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‘We just want our kid home’: Australians stranded as Singapore shuts to UK – Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne teacher Sean Simpson and his family wanted one thing for Christmas: that his step-son Jacob would be back on home soil.
Mr Simpson said Jacob was now effectively homeless with no job, nowhere to live, and “not knowing what to do”.
Sean Simpson with his wife Vanessa, step-son Jacob Marchett and his siblings.
The family was trying to organise for Jacob to stay with friends in London – a significant ask at Christmas time. The only flights to Australia available with other airlines next week cost upwards of $10,000, while Mr Simpson said the next government-funded repatriation flight on December 29 was already full.
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