Well darlins, it's been a month of insanity. I won't bore you with all the ridiculousness, frustrations and world wobbling details, (I've talked a bit about it on the One People Show this past two weeks), but I am going to share with you the major points that have led to this moment.

Four weeks ago I began the early stages of applying for new Visa's so that we could stay here in Australia for the remainder of the year. This entailed studying the Australian Immigration/Borders website and making several calls to them to verify that we knew exactly which visa to apply for and that we had all our paperwork and documents that we would need.

Long story short: They denied our Visas, and literally the day after I processed my application on the Australian Government website, Paypal Locked me out of my account.

This came at the exact same as I was getting ready to re-launch Gaia's Gardens with a major event. An event that required Paypal..... which I was (and still am) locked out of. After 6 calls to Paypal offices in two different countries, I finally was told that the lock out was due to security issues because I hadn't notified Paypal that I was "out of the country".... except that I've been using my Paypal regularly for three months before their "security over-ride" finally recognized that I was in Australia. Great security system, eh? A week after multiple phone calls my Paypal is still under lock-down and they are not responding to any of my emails.

But that is just the side story at the moment. The main issue is that our family now has 11 days to get out of Australia. Below is a copy of the email that I have sent to several Australian Politicians- those involved with Tourism, Immigration, Small Business, Trade & Investment, etc- and the local media outlets. This email explains the details of our journey of fuckupery that began in January 2016 with the failure of the Australian Governments Online Visa service, and ends with what can only be called "class discrimination", as the only way to even have our case reviewed or even be able to speak to anyone, is to pay $10,000 AU!!!!

Yes, you read that correctly. In order to have our case reviewed at all, we have to apply to a tribunal and the cost just to process the application is $10,000 for a family of 6. This is on top of the $2040 AU that we just spent on the Visa applications two weeks ago.

At this point we have exhausted all of our options and basically the last thing I can think of to try, is to ask everyone to Flash Mob the Government and media in a last ditch effort to get someone to actually listen to us. If you read the email below, you'll see that it's been a shit show cluster fuck from the very beginning back in January.

So, If this resonates with you, please forward this email below, with the subject line: "Let the Arnold/Mckenny Family Stay!" to all of the media and government emails below.

Thank you my friends. I will post an update as soon as I can

love d

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