Passports, borders and identity — the story of the essential travel item

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Recorded08 Jan 2023

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As Australia’s borders opened after the Covid pandemic, there was an overwhelming surge in applications for passports as we travelled to see friends and family overseas or took up that abandoned holiday. Something like a passport goes back centuries but the modern version—a little travel booklet with your photo in it—is a relatively recent phenomenon.

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