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Thursday, 8 April 2021, 8:28 am
At last! After 10 months working on the issue, New
Zealand’s Director-General of Health has graciously
decided that Australia is now a sufficiently low-risk
Covid19 country that “quarantine free travel is safe to
commence” between the two countries – a mere six months
after Australia made the same decision in respect of New
Zealand. But we still had to endure weeks of Prime
Ministerial teasing about when such a decision might be
made, and another tediously and unnecessarily long press
conference before the announcement occurred.
According
to Dr Bloomfield, part of the reason for the process taking
so long was because “the systems have not been in place to
Around August this year a new Governor-General will take office to replace Dame Patsy Reddy upon the conclusion of her five-year term. A few months before then the Prime Minister will announce whom she has chosen to be the next Governor-General. .
Last year the Prime Minister laid out an astonishingly simple but extremely effective plan for dealing with the threat Covid19 posed to New Zealand. It was basically to take advantage of our isolated location and seal our borders to keep the virus out .
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