Travel baronâs tip on when weâll be jetting off again As Qantas restarts long-haul flights, a entrepreneur has revealed when he expects international travel to resume.
Travel by Hayden Johnson
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Subscriber only International travel is expected to return within months, as Qantas restarts long-haul flights and pressure builds on the Government to fast-track the rollout of Australia s COVID-19 vaccine. Two of Australia s largest travel organisations this week offered new hope to travel-hungry Australians, with Qantas selling seats to the US and UK from July, and Flight Centre ready to follow. Australia s national carrier restarted sales of the international flights despite both countries struggling to bring the virus under control.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has expressed his disappointment at the delayed investigation into Wuhan and the origins of the coronavirus after the World Health Organisation today claimed their special team was barred from entering the city.
Beijing has delayed the arrival of the team of 10 international scientists for several months, inundating them with a number of logistical demands and rules.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebhreyesus announced “today we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalised the necessary permissions for the team’s arrival in China”.
Addressing the claim today, Mr Albanese said “well the fact is that it’s unacceptable”.
“Not just Australia but the whole world needs this investigation to happen, and it should happen openly and transparently and that should be facilitated by China and other countries as well should all cooperate fully with the investigation,” he said.
“That’s in the world’s interests.”
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The Therapeutic Goods Administration's decision to take a bit more time to observe vaccine data from other countries will increase Australians' trust in the program.
Geoff Wilson, the de facto leader of the campaign to kill off Labor's so-called 'retiree tax', has claimed victory after the party ruled out any future franking credit changes.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese will officially ditch the controversial franking credits policy Labor took to the last election when he addresses grassroots party members in Melbourne today. Mr Albanese intends to use his livestreamed speech to outline Labor s path to victory at the next election, which could happen in the second half of 2021 or early 2022. He will cite the lessons learned from Labor s review of its 2019 defeat. The review identified the need for focusing on our future positive agenda, but also that voters were distracted from that by issues including franking credits, Mr Albanese will say. I can confirm that Labor has heard that message clearly, and that we will not be taking any changes to franking credits to the next election.