Hypocrite of the Day
James Shaw flees an unsafe Parliament where lives are being put at risk to Covid hotspot Glasgow for a climate change conference. pic.twitter.com/uEfYtMb5qX — David Seymour (@dbseymour) September 9, 2021
Travel
Some Surprising Facts about the Hindenburg
The crash of the Hindenburg is one of the most iconic transport disasters of all time. Second only to the sinking of the Titanic, it’s been immortalised in popular culture, from Leadbelly’s contemporary song, to the cover of Led Zeppelin’s debut album, and films and novels. Journalist
Rarotongan Vaxhole Bans Unclean Unvaxxed from Resorts
In a bizarre move, The Rarotongan Resort General Manager Tata Crocombe has deemed all unvaccinated persons to be unclean and banned them from his various premises! You might think that, for a small island nation that relies almost exclusively on tourism for their livelihood, banning a large chunk of your
Where in the World You Can’t Go
For Australians, imprisoned within their own borders, the entire world is a travel-restricted destination. Not since the fall of the Soviet Union have a people been so resolutely confined within their own borders. But, should our Covid overlords ever miraculously allow us past our 60,000 km Checkpoint Charlie, there
Travel Bubble: Swap Sheep Shagging for Cousins
Another trans-Tasman bubble is reopening after being closed for a quarter-century. Direct flights from Auckland to Hobart resumed this week for the first time since 1996. Mind you, the aviation press don’t exactly seem to be doing their best to sell Tassie as a must-see destination for travel-starved Kiwis.
Collins’ Comments: Trans-Tasman Bubble Win
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is great to know that many people in Australia and New Zealand are going to be free of the travel restrictions of the past year by mid-April. I know that many of you supported my petition to the government to have the
Face of the Day
The Prime Minister has begun her sales pitch in an effort to attract Australian tourists when the trans-Tasman bubble opens. […] Yesterday, Ardern says she “carries the weight” of promoting the country and will consider travelling to Australia to do so. Who is the tourism minister? It looks like Stuart Nash
We Were Slow to Secure Vaccines and Now We’re Exposed
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand has been left terribly exposed as a slow vaccinating outlier among developed countries, unable to let vaccinated travellers into the country because the Government doesn’t yet know enough about how infectious those protected travellers might be,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
Bubble Should Be First Step Reconnecting NZ to the World
The Government should not consider a trans-Tasman bubble ‘job done’ when it comes to reconnecting New Zealand to the world, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Today’s announcement was too long in coming for the families who have been kept apart for more than a year and the
Where Is NZ’s Global Travel Taskforce?
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government must start taking some of the steps other countries are to chart the course ahead for how we travel in a post-vaccine world,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “On April 12 the United Kingdom (UK) Government will receive detailed recommendations from its
Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World
Mary A. Shiraef University of Notre Dame Shiraef is a researcher who studies studies processes of migration and identity politicization, with a focus on how collective memory takes shape in authoritarian regimes. In addition to her M.A. from Notre Dame, she holds a Masters of Literature (MLitt) in International
Just Pay for Your Pets, You Shiftless Grifters
A good friend of mine suffers terribly from coeliac disease. It’s a debilitating condition that mandates constant dietary vigilance. But coeliac is not to be confused with “gluten intolerance”. One is a very real condition; the other is an attention-seeking fancy, cooked up in the hypochondriac cornucopia of the
The Future of Travel
lens.monash.edu In this episode of A Different Lens, we ask experts from fields including science, business, arts, design, medicine and health, and engineering what they think the future of travel looks like – from driverless cars, personalised public transport and flying taxis, to SpaceX travel. We also ask, why
Plague Ship Passengers
When the Prime Minister closed down New Zealand’s oil and gas industry in order to signal her environmentalist credentials and prove commitment to her comrades at the Socialist International, she did so against murmurs of discontent which eventually came to nothing. When she did the same thing to tourism
The Year of Virtual Travel: The Benefits of Exploring the World through Webcams
David Jarratt University of Central Lancashire During the first UK lockdown I received an email from my son’s primary school with a list of webcams we might enjoy having a look at. We particularly enjoyed watching and identifying the animals at a particular African watering hole that we could