Australia-New Zealand travel plan still bubbling away | jamesmassola
Australian and New Zealand officials are still working behind the scenes to set up a travel bubble between the two countries, but community transmission of coronavirus will have to fall to zero before the proposal takes off.
Regardless of the delay, Parker said "all of the rules that lie behind that [the travel bubble] are continuing to be worked through quite successfully by government officials"."I don’t think it's off the table, [but] it has always been a written term of that agreement that we don’t have community transmission.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said Australia was still keen to establish travel arrangements with neighbouring countries but his first priority was for state borders to reopen. Parker played down the prospect of a travel corridor between New Zealand and COVID-free states such as South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.
"I think there are opportunities because of the relative ease of trade between our two countries, for the next little while it will be less challenged than trade with other countries, so it would be natural for companies on both sides to take advantage of that," he said.Dominic Lorrimer
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