3 Jul 2020

Unlikely collective call for clearer border strategy

From Checkpoint, 5:47 pm on 3 July 2020

The former chief science advisor, Sir Peter Gluckman, the former prime minister Helen Clark and former Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe have co-authored a paper saying keeping the country isolated for too long will cause huge damage to the economy. The paper calls for a clear transparent strategy and questions whether those discussions can be sensibly had this close to an election. 

Regardless; there's already a queue forming for destinations that would love reciporical deals with NZ.

When it comes to the numbers South Australia's had 443 covid cases and four deaths.

It usually gets around 56,000 kiwi visitors a year - the head of South Australia's tourism body, Rodney Harrex,  says they're keen to get those tourists back as soon as possible.