From the Newsroom – August
There’s no real secret about how to get to a war zone. You catch the Melbourne or Sydney to London flight – the one with all the screaming babies – and disembark in Dubai. Then you catch a bus to Terminal 2 and board a plane to Erbil, Iraq.
Australians don’t even need a visa.
We arrived on the morning flight and within minutes of landing , we were standing blinking in the intense light and 45 degree heat of an Iraqi summer. We wanted to get started straight away.
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