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Vaccinated Australians could be allowed to undertake quarantine-free overseas travel within months, with health officials told to develop medical thresholds for easing international border controls once vulnerable people are protected.
Following Friday’s national cabinet meeting, premiers also agreed to lift capacity at large, ticketed, seated events such as sporting matches to 100 per cent as well as strive to keep state borders open when coronavirus outbreaks flare up.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says national cabinet is looking at how to reopen Australia.
Alex Ellinghausen
As the government tries to push ahead with reopening the economy despite the setback to the vaccine rollout, the tourism and education sectors warned they would suffer further damage if the international borders remained closed for long.
Apr 7, 2021 â 6.10pm
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If you thought a trip to New Zealand, including the ski hub of Queenstown, was expensive before COVID-19, just wait for the trans-Tasman travel bubble prices.
With travel-mad Australians itching to dust off their passports, there has been a flurry of activity checking out flight deals from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to popular destinations such as Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch and Wellington.
Queenstown is back on the winter holiday list for Australians. Â
Flight Centreâs online traffic spiked immediately â up 300 per cent â in the first hour after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the proposed new travel arrangements starting on April 19.
Business by Glenda Korporaal, Ben Wilmot 7th Apr 2021 8:59 AM
Premium Content  The slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine could see Australia left behind, Corporate Travel Management chief executive Jamie Pherous has warned. The stark calls comes as concerns emerge that local business would be left behind rivals operating in markets where vaccines have been widely administered, with problems spreading beyond exporting. A wide swath of corporate Australia, stretching beyond the hard-hit tourism and travel sectors, is calling for a faster vaccine rollout to provide greater certainty for investment in the economic recovery. Mr Pherous said delays in the rollout of the vaccines were now costing Australian business because of the inability to travel, while business travellers in the US and Britain who had been vaccinated were now able to.
After nearly a year shut off from the world, New Zealand is cracking open its borders, with a trans-Tasman travel bubble allowing two-way quarantine-free travel with Australia. The NZ prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced on Tuesday the bubble would open from 19 April, allowing quarantine-free travel between the two nations. Travellers from New Zealand have been able to enter selected Australian states without quarantining since October but.
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