Analysis: The National Party conference ends in disunity as a major board member quits, but the government is under the gun after power blackouts and revelations unvaccinated port workers boarded an infected ship.
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4.10pm: Quarantine-free travel with WA, NT to resume by weekend
The pause on quarantine-free travel with Western Australia and the Northern Territory will be lifted from 11.59pm this Friday, Jacinda Ardern has announced at a post-cabinet press conference. The pre-departure test requirement remains.
The bubbles with Queensland and New South Wales remain paused, but people ordinarily resident in New Zealand will be allowed to return from that same time, provided they make a declaration that they haven’t been in a location of interest, are not symptomatic, and are not a close contact of a case or awaiting a Covid-19 test results.
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Analysis - New rules are coming for masks and scanning, but the question is asked: has the government itself become complacent? The prime minister gets herself in a muddle with proposed hate speech laws and takes a lashing from the media, a former National minister berates his own party and the Three Waters proposals run into problems.
Top from left: Jacinda Ardern, Kris Faafoi, Chris Finlayson and Nanaia Mahuta.
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Ardern said use of the app was consistently low across the country. Of the 2600 potential contacts of the infected Sydney man who visited Wellington a fortnight ago only 585 had used it.