10 Jun 2020

Covid-19: Calls grow for NZ-Pacific bubble

From The Panel, 4:07 pm on 10 June 2020

Calls are growing for New Zealand to include the Pacific in a trans-Tasman bubble.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark says almost two thirds of tourists to Pacific Island nations are from Australia and New Zealand and it's time to consider how Pacific inclusion could work.

The Panel is joined by Collin Tukuitonga, who is Auckland University's inaugural Associate Dean Pacific and former director-general of the Pacific Community, the SPC.