Passports are sitting idle but delivery trucks and vans ferrying goods to households are not.
The $60 billion-plus that Australians usually spend on overseas trips and travelling interstate without the handbrake of sudden border closures is being diverted to electronics items, household appliances, cars and renovations.
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