{"id":13631,"date":"2020-02-03T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/australians-elderly-mother-in-law-barred-from-returning-to-country-from-china"},"modified":"2020-02-03T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:18:42","slug":"sydneysiders-mother-barred-from-returning-to-australia-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13631","title":{"rendered":"Sydneysider&#8217;s mother barred from returning to Australia from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra\u2019s new travel restrictions on people who have visited China draw complaints of overly narrow definitions of family and dependents<\/p>\n<p> The parents of Australians have been separated from their families under the government\u2019s travel ban from China because they do not qualify as \u201cimmediate family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/coronavirus-qantas-suspends-direct-flights-to-china-following-us-and-singapore-bans\">announced new travel restrictions<\/a> on people who had visited China, barring all those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/marise-payne\/media-release\/updated-travel-advice-protect-australians-novel-coronavirus\">except Australian citizens, permanent residents and certain family members<\/a> from entering the country, in order to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/australians-elderly-mother-in-law-barred-from-returning-to-country-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra\u2019s new travel restrictions on people who have visited China draw complaints of overly narrow definitions of family and dependents The parents of Australians have been separated from their families under the government\u2019s travel ban from China be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,50,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}