Michail

May be someone can assist with advice.

A good friend of ours intends to open a retail store in Germany and is
looking for possible goods and suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and
Indonesia. She wants to visit us, her friends, and use us as a base. We are
both Australian citizens. She is a 25 years old woman. She is married but
about to get divorced.

When she applied for a visitor's visa for Australia she asked for a visa
allowing her to leave and return to Australia (obviously). She obtained a 12
months multiple return visitor's visa with the endorsement that she may stay
in Australia only for 3 months at a time, then has to leave but afterwards
she may return for another 3 months and so on.

Basically that is perfect for her purpose as she wants to use Australia as a
base and make excursions to New Zealand and Indonesia at least. However,
there is now some doubt as to her having to return to Germany before she
re-enters Australia which would be useless. Can someone please advise if the
fear is real or doesn't it matter where she goes to before she re-enters
Australia as thought?

I should say that the woman is NOT a German Citizen, she is only a permanent
resident in Germany. She holds a passport of Georgia.

Thanks
Fred