A Quarantine-Free Travel Bubble Between Australia and NZ Looks Closer to Becoming a Reality – Concrete Playground

Since mid-October last year, New Zealanders have been able to visit some Australian states as part of a one-way travel bubble. The arrangement has been paused a few times due to COVID-19 case numbers in NZ, but it has remained broadly in place. In the coming months, Australians might also be able to hop across the Tasman as well — something that has been floated and discussed plenty of times over the past year, but now looks like it could soon come to fruition.

Speaking with the media separately today, Thursday, March 17, both New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and NZ Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson advised that the NZ Government is progressing towards a trans-Tasman bubble.

On Radio New Zealand, Robertson said that the…