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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement that trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel will begin on April 19 has been welcomed by nearly everyone, from families desperate to be reunited to airlines and tourism businesses gasping for customers.
But Ardern’s “flyer beware” caveat was a deliberate reminder of the many things that have to go right for this bubble to work.
As Michael Plank and Shaun Hendy explain, Australian and New Zealand border controls will need to remain solid, strict contingency plans must be in place, and travellers should factor in the possibility of disruption before they even buy a ticket. A “traffic light” system will determine how a community transmission case in Australia would be handled in New Zealand.
Sharing contact tracing information, segregated airport facilities and separate flight schedules must all be ready within two weeks. If it goes well, however, this potential world-first safe travel zone could act as a blueprint for other countries as vaccination and elimination make international travel possible again.
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Finlay Macdonald
New Zealand Senior Editor & NZ Editor: Politics, Business + Arts
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Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Shaun Hendy, University of Auckland
New Zealand and Australia both had COVID-19 outbreaks originating from border facilities, but as frontline border workers are prioritised for vaccination, the risk of this happening again is lower.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
When your back's against the wall, attack is not necessarily the best means of defence. With this in mind, the word from Scott Morrison to his ministers is, lay off the states.
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Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University
More than 500 million people's details were compromised. The records include various combinations of name, email, gender, date of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
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Timothy W. Jones, La Trobe University; Jennifer Power, La Trobe University; Tiffany Jones, Macquarie University
At least one in 10 LGBTQA+ Australians are still vulnerable to religion-based practices to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity.
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Rupert Posner, ClimateWorks Australia
History shows how the states and territories can step into a policy breach when the federal government fails. It's time they band together on electric vehicles.
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Business + Economy
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Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Cash holdings jumped 17% during the crisis, most of them in the form of $50 and $100 notes.
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David Tripe, Massey University; Martien Lubberink, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The New Zealand subsidiaries of major Australian banks might be highly profitable, but realising their true sale value can still be a challenge.
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Health + Medicine
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Stephen King, Monash University
There are many initiatives around Australia designed to keep people with chronic conditions out of hospital. But to take these further, the health system needs a 'license to innovate'.
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Nicole Lee, Curtin University; Jarryd Bartle, RMIT University
Decriminalisation of illicit drugs is the natural conclusion to decades of research on drug-related harms.
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Prafulla Shriyan, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar; Giridhara R Babu, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar
A new coronavirus double mutation found in India is better shaped to invade our cells.
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Arts + Culture
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Sasha Grishin, Australian National University
This exhibition will become the definitive show of Australian Impressionism - and it features talented women artists alongside iconic males.
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Fincina Hopgood, University of New England
Set in a mental health facility, Wakefield shows the advantages of television over feature film, giving scope to explore mental health stories without resorting to caricatures.
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Environment + Energy
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Catherine Iorns, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand is replacing its once groundbreaking environmental legislation with new laws, one of which focuses on climate change adaptation and will include a fund to enable managed retreat.
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Laura Revell, University of Canterbury
The Earth should be safe (and habitable) for a few billions of years, but we still need to worry about the impact now of just a few degrees of global warming.
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Politics + Society
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Patricia A. O'Brien, Georgetown University
In 1946, the US began its nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands -- a terrifying thought for many Australians. Some 75 years on, the evidence shows their fears were well-founded.
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Science + Technology
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Conor McAdams, University of Wollongong; Mike W Morley, Flinders University; Richard 'Bert' Roberts, University of Wollongong
Laboratory experiments with bat poo reveal how archaeological materials in tropical caves have been chemically altered over the millennia.
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