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The Government is spending $1.2 billion to get us flying around Australia. But that doesn’t mean state borders will no longer be closed.

The Government is spending $1.2 billion to get us flying around Australia. But that doesn’t mean state borders will no longer be closed.

The Government is spending $1.2 billion to get us flying around Australia. But that doesn’t mean state borders will no longer be closed.

  A $1.2 billion program encouraging Australians to travel interstate won't necessarily mark the end of border shutdowns, a tourism expert warns. Some 800,000 half-price airfares to holiday hot spots offered to Australian travellers in a billion-dollar federal government bid to revive the nation's struggling tourism industry. The discount will initially apply to interstate flights to 13 key regions, including tourism-dependent parts of Queensland and Western Australia, where notoriously strict border rules hit particularly hard. Despite the massive investment in encouraging Australian...

The Government is spending $1.2 billion to get us flying around Australia. But that doesn’t mean state borders will no longer be closed.