Amelia Lester
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Which you picked because it's very appropriate to that destination.
Yeah, right.
There are.
But at the same time, I just want to say that I really feel for all the Australians who are in that region right now, because what is happening is very unprecedented and shocking to a lot of the countries in this region who thought that they were insulated from the dynamics of
the more hotspot areas.
So, you know, I don't think that anyone could have foreseen this future even a week ago.
And when I saw on Monday that the US State Department had issued this warning to all Americans in the Middle East, basically the entire Middle East, to leave immediately.
My heart sank for all these people because it's not going to be easy for them to leave either.
By the way, the Australian government's advice is more modulated than that.
It's on the DFAT website and it advises people to register with their local consulates and embassies and to make plans to leave.
But nonetheless, lots of flights are cancelled, hundreds, even thousands of flights are cancelled.
There's no real way out.
People are trying to plot like overland routes.
It is a very scary situation that I don't think anyone could have predicted.
At the same time, I can see why there's an interest in the influences, because Holly, to your original question, you said, do they all have to become citizen war correspondents?
No, I don't think they do.
But in essence, they are.
That is what they are.
And I have found it really interesting to look at the content that these creators are putting out right now to get a sense of what it feels like on the ground.