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Stranded Aussies feel 'abandoned', Senate committee hears

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Foreign Minister Marine Payne at a virtual press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Source: AAP

Some of the tens of thousands of Australians who are stranded overseas have told a Senate committee they feel abandoned and betrayed by the federal government.


More than 36,000 Australians are registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the number of Australians classified as vulnerable has doubled to 8,000.


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