After nearly 600 days of closed borders, Australia has welcomed its first quarantine and travel bubble-free international flights on Monday morning. A flight from Singapore arrived in Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport before 5:30 a.m. with a Qantas flight from Los Angeles, the United States, following at 6 a.m. The initial flights entering Australia are limited to Australian citizens, permanent residents, and their families who have been stranded overseas due to the government’s strict biosecurity border policy. Hundreds of travellers reunited with family and friends who greeted them at the airport. Many passengers were greeted with “welcome home” signs and offered Tim Tams, an iconic Australian chocolate biscuit, and native Australian flowers when they exited customs. “I am ecstatic,” an Australian passenger from Los Angeles told Nine News. “This is like, the third flight that I have booked. I have been wanting to come home for a while now.” Another woman …