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Travel bubble: Flights to resume between New Zealand and Perth
27 Apr, 2021 05:11 AM
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There were emotional scenes at airports across the country as the Trans-Tasman bubble reunited families and loved ones from across the ditch. Video / Mark Mitchell / Tom Dyton / AucklandNZ
There were emotional scenes at airports across the country as the Trans-Tasman bubble reunited families and loved ones from across the ditch. Video / Mark Mitchell / Tom Dyton / AucklandNZ
NZ Herald
New Zealand will reopen quarantine-free travel with Western Australia from midday tomorrow, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced.
Travelers who have been identified as contacts to cases across the Tasman will have to test negative and self-isolate for 14 days before they depart for New Zealand.
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Up to 9000 Australian citizens and residents will remain stranded in India for at least three weeks after the federal government shut down all flights into Australia while joining global relief efforts to help the coronavirus-ravaged country.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne announce the pausing of all direct flights from India for the next three weeks.
Rhett Wyman
“There will be more to follow,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, following an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee of Cabinet.
But to safeguard Australia and give the quarantine facilities in NSW and Howard Springs outside Darwin time to bolster their defences against the rising number of infected people arriving from the subcontinent, the government cancelled the two weekly direct flights to Sydney as well as the government-sponsored repatriation flights to the Northern Territory until at least May 15.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Quarantine-free travel with Western Australia resumes today
27 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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There were emotional scenes at airports across the country as the Trans-Tasman bubble reunited families and loved ones from across the ditch. Video / Mark Mitchell / Tom Dyton / AucklandNZ
There were emotional scenes at airports across the country as the Trans-Tasman bubble reunited families and loved ones from across the ditch. Video / Mark Mitchell / Tom Dyton / AucklandNZ
NZ Herald
New Zealand will reopen quarantine-free travel with Western Australia from midday today, despite a person managing to fly here during Perth s lockdown.
New Zealand immediately suspended quarantine-free travel to and from Perth shortly after Friday s announcement that Western Australia would go into lockdown after a breach at a hotel quarantine site.
Australia security official warns of ‘drums of war’
FREE AND OPEN? Asked whether he agreed that military tensions in the region are rising, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said only that his goal is to pursue peace
AP, CANBERRA
A senior Australian security bureaucrat has told his staff that free nations “again hear the beating drums” of war, as military tensions rise in the Asia-Pacific region.
Australian Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo’s message to all department staff on Anzac Day on Sunday was published in the Australian yesterday.
“In a world of perpetual tension and dread, the drums of war beat sometimes faintly and distantly, and at other times more loudly and ever closer,” Pezzullo said.