{"id":463,"date":"2020-12-11T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=463"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:08:01","slug":"queensland-opens-borders-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Queensland opens borders to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Queensland is opening its borders to New Zealand from tomorrow, the state&#8217;s premier says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/110129\/eight_col_GoldCoast.jpg.jpg?1601279849\" alt=\"Gold Coast woman Breeana Robinson died in 2013, after falling 11 storeys from an apartment balcony.\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0123rf<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Zealanders will be able to travel into to the Australian state without having to quarantine from 1am local time on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said in a tweet that more New Zealand citizens call Queensland home than any other Australian state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Kiwis able to travel to Queensland from tomorrow, families can finally be reunited in time for Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Queensland&#39;s borders will open to New Zealand from 1am Saturday 12 December.<\/p>\n<p>More New Zealand citizens call Queensland home than any other Australian state.<\/p>\n<p>With Kiwis able to travel to Queensland from tomorrow, families can finally be reunited in time for Christmas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c60q73OLNj\">pic.twitter.com\/c60q73OLNj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Annastacia Palaszczuk (@AnnastaciaMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnastaciaMP\/status\/1337129057167626241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>rime Minister Jacinda Ardern is not putting a timeline on any trans-Tasman travel bubble, and said officials were still working through allowing Australians to come to this country without 14 days in managed isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never put timelines on it, because of course people book their lives around it, they make plans around it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I want to make sure that whenever we do give that indication we have the certainty of firm dates attached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ardern said Australia&#8217;s state-by-state approach was making planning for a possible outbreak difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Palaszczuk told\u00a0<i>Channel Nine\u00a0<\/i>visitors from New Zealand would still need to quarantine on their return home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hoping that eventually New Zealand will not have to do that \u2026 then there would be free-flowing movement between the two,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Australian residents are still banned from travelling overseas unless granted an exemption from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Three new cases of coronavirus were detected in hotel quarantine in Queensland yesterday, meaning 22 cases are currently considered active across the state.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; RNZ \/ ABC<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Queensland is opening its borders to New Zealand from tomorrow, the state&#8217;s premier says. Photo:\u00a0123rf New Zealanders will be able to travel into to the Australian state without having to quarantine from 1am local time on Saturday. 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