In March 2020 I was evacuated from Budapest before Hungary closed its border. Having spent 4 days in Budapest a city in a state of emergency I returned to 14 days of quarantine where I bemoaned the trauma of the experience and the outrageous cost. The fai

In March 2020 I was evacuated from Budapest before Hungary closed its border. Having spent 4 days in Budapest a city in a state of emergency I returned to 14 days of quarantine where I bemoaned the trauma of the experience and the outrageous cost. The failure of DFAT in issuing inadequate warnings as only 'unsafe for tourism'. This enabled travel companies to endanger consumers allowing them to travel into a pandemic knowing they would never complete their trip instead of being obliged to cancel. There was no concern for our safety by either the government or the travel industry. Our losses were refused by the insurance industry, not even a partial refund of the premium.
Now more than two years after paying for a trip I never completed I remain out of pocket thousands. In the cruellest twist of fate, my partner broke his neck in an accident in April. So 2021 has been devoted to his survival, surgeries, rehabilitation and ongoing recovery which I am told will take up to two years. He will not be travelling and the costs of his recovery continue to roll in.
The corporation holding our funds whilst in receipt of JobKeeper could announce a new multimillion-dollar corporate sporting sponsorship backed by a multibillion-dollar private equity firm is able to keep our money and deny a critically injured man money that would help his recovery just because they can.
How good is corporate greed?