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Hungary for a Break
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Hungary for a Break

Having spent the last couple of years unable to travel overseas due to both Covid and work, I was gifted a small window of opportunity of a few days as one dear employer departed and another prepared to arrive. Scanning the Continental map of where we have and haven’t

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Is the Tide Beginning to Turn?

KSK It is raining.  Again.  It is also the day that, once again, there is another lockdown/lockout/lockup in place.  In yet another diatribe from the lectern of lies, we have been berated by our stern arm-waving, head-rolling, eye-squinching Head Prefect, like wilful children for failing

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Kiwis Kept Flightless by Vaccine Passport Go Slow

Kiwis Kept Flightless by Vaccine Passport Go Slow

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has issued 4.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccine and, as is this Government’s way, forgot to issue any kind of proof. I first asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about the passports allowing New Zealanders to travel internationally in March, and again in

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Hypocrite of the Day

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

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Some Surprising Facts about the Hindenburg

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

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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

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Where in the World You Can’t Go

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,

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Travel Bubble: Swap Sheep Shagging for Cousins

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

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Collins’ Comments: Trans-Tasman Bubble Win

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

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Face of the Day

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

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We Were Slow to Secure Vaccines and Now We’re Exposed

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.

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Bubble Should Be First Step Reconnecting NZ to the World

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

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Where Is NZ’s Global Travel Taskforce?
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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

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Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World

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

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