Australian Tourism Will Need Federal Support if Overseas Flights Stop Until 2022: Osmond Australia’s tourism industry is seeking additional financial support from the federal government after the former chief health officer Brendan Murphy warned international travel would be unlikely this year even with a CCP virus vaccine rollout imminent. Murphy, who is the current secretary of the Health Department, told the ABC on Monday that: “Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don’t know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus, and it’s likely that quarantine will continue for some time.” Then Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy during the Senate select committee on COVID-19 public hearing at Parliament House on May 13, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)