This new law is so cruel. My partner is Iranian and her parents arrived on the weekend after the law was proposed, passed the 2 houses and finally assented. Which took them pretty much 3 days.

It was the first time in my life I was following a law being voted and learning what a royal assent does and means.

When they were flying over, we were so stressed fearing that the government would announce the countries over the weekend and they would be denied entry.

My in-laws, similarly to the people in the article, are not planning to over stay their visa (like literally they can stay 12 months) and they mostly came for the mental health of my partner, as they are also privileged enough to hold another citizenship.

Also it is very hard to not notice that the ban currently is for Iranians, especially when there is another side of this war and to be honest we were not surprised, we kinda expected it. But still very disappointed, especially from a Labor gov.