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Thousands of Australians overseas have been trying to get home over the past few months, but have been hindered by cancelled flights and exorbitant airfares. This has left many stranded in unsafe, volatile environments, with money fast running out. On this episode of Full Story, Elias Visontay explains why this is happening and how it’s entirely avoidable

The number of migrants arriving to the UK in small boats this year is already double that of 2019. But those who manage to reach the country find themselves confronted by a government that is increasingly hostile to new arrivals

As Covid-19 tore through aged care homes during Victoria’s second wave, state and federal governments attempted to shift blame for the rising death toll. Political editor Katharine Murphy examines what has happened and who has ultimate responsibility

Economics writer Aditya Chakrabortty describes how the coronavirus crisis has sent Britain plunging into a record recession and what it means for the millions of people fearing for their jobs

Emma Sheppard Simms tells us how she struggled with closing borders and mandatory quarantine to spend time with her dying father at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in north-west Tasmania

Before coronavirus, Victoria’s economy was powering ahead, but the tough lockdown as it endures a second wave has hit businesses hard. As companies close their doors and staff numbers are savagely cut, the state’s shutdown threatens to drag the rest of Australia even further into economic peril. Business correspondent Ben Butler explains how Victoria’s prosperity was dealt a succession of blows

Kamala Harris is the first Indian American and the first black woman to run for US vice-president on a major party ticket. Lauren Gambino discusses why, as Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris is in prime position to go one step further

Last summer, bushfires burned through more than 12.6m hectares of the Australian landscape – an area almost the size of England. Reports that billions of individual animals were lost in the fires, pushing some native species to extinction, attracted global headlines. Environment reporter Graham Readfearn revisits the devastating story of Kangaroo Island in South Australia to explain the efforts to help local species survive, and discusses what needs to be done on a national level to protect wildlife from more catastrophic losses

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Belarus to contest the claimed election victory of the president, Alexander Lukashenko, and met a violent police response. Hanna Liubakova, a Belarusian journalist, describes being on the ground, while the Guardian’s Andrew Roth looks at how Lukashenko has remained in power for 26 years

Lebanese Australians are accustomed to bad news from Beirut, but last week’s explosion in the port, which killed at least 220 people and wrecked buildings across the city, brought a new kind of despair. Antoun Issa reflects on the weight of Lebanon’s violent past in Australian families, and the struggle to offer practical help in the aftermath of the explosion, amid the country’s economic chaos and entrenched political corruption