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Chief Minister Andrew Barr said the ACT would likely welcome two more repatriation flights this year as states and territories were pushed to help bring thousands of stranded Australians home by Christmas. The ACT would welcome up to 150 people over a 16-to-18-day period, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced last month, as the cap on international arrivals was slightly raised in a bid to bring around 34,000 people home by December. Mr Barr said the ACT would not accept a chartered repatriation flight for at least another two weeks as the government looked into its…