Victoria's coronavirus lockdown sabotages terminally ill Australian man's year-long fight to get home

John Jobber's flight home, after being stuck in Ireland, will not be accepted due to lockdown restrictions

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Terminally ill Australian man John Jobber is running out of time to make it back from Ireland and fulfil his wish of dying back home in Tasmania.

After nearly a year of fighting to get Jobber home, his daughter Samantha John finally secured plane tickets to Melbourne for next week, but now she fears Melbourne's snap lockdown means he will never see home again.