Trade Minister Simon Birmingham hopes a travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand can be put in place by the end of the year.
A further $200 million will be injected into the 'building better regions fund' to boost infrastructure in regional communities, $100 million of which will be dedicated to tourism-related infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Premier Andrews reported just 16 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in Victoria, taking the state's pandemic death toll to 784 and the national figure to 872. But his"safe and steady" approach includes the night curfew being lifted in Victoria from 5am on Monday, while 127,000 people will be allowed to return to work from midnight, which is 30,000 more than originally expected.
Traces of COVID-19 have been detected in raw sewage across Sydney as part of new research that could provide another tool in the fight against the pandemic, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said.
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