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Australia: Bali 9 returns, Fiji poisonings, Qantas combo

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The Warwick Resort on Fiji's Coral Coast.

The Warwick Resort on Fiji's Coral Coast. Photo: Facebook Warwick Fiji

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton looks at the return of five of the nine Australians who were convicted over heroin smuggling in Bali.

Travel advice to Fiji has been upgraded following suspected poisoning of a group of holiday makers, Qantas has paid out $120m to a group of former ground staff sacked during the Covid pandemic whose jobs were then filled by outsourced workers and a popular holiday town on the NSW coast is the epicentre of a new scare involving a flesh-eating bacteria.

Karen Middleton is political editor of the Guardian Australia