Travel Bubble

The government is warning it will take a "swift and severe" approach to any future cases of Covid-19, and move quickly to Alert Level Four.

It comes as a long-awaited report into reopening our border… Audio

Pensioners struggling to get home from Australia are having their superannuation payments stopped and some may be forced to start paying them back.

RNZ has spoken to people who needed to travel… Audio

If you're a New Zealander in Sydney without a flight home, you could be stranded there for some time.

It comes as New South Wales recorded a record 136 Covid-19 infections overnight with officials… Audio

It is a different deal for New Zealand returnees depending on what Australian state they are in.

New South Wales is the worst hit with 136 new community Covid-19 cases in greater Sydney today, with… Audio

Today, our panelists will be looking at the troubling rise of violence in New Zealand, the governments Mongrel Mob rehab funding and National's new 'demand the debate' billboard campaign. Audio

Compulsory QR scanning and more mask wearing could be on the cards as Cabinet weighs up its options.

The government has been under pressure to make more Covid-19 measures mandatory, after an… Audio

Employers and Manufacturers Association boss Brett O'Riley is calling for some Covid-19 vaccination prioritisation for exporters in NZ.

"Not to the front of the queue, but … the vaccination… Video, Audio

A call for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout to ramp up on both sides of the ditch if the trans-Tasman bubble is to stay afloat.

All quarantine free travel from Australia is on pause until at least… Video, Audio

Australia could be on the verge of a national outbreak of the Covid-19 Delta variant. Four states and territories have reported new cases and have imposed lockdowns or tighter restrictions.

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Covid-19 testing numbers have dropped from the heights recorded last week, but centres and GPs in Wellington are gearing up for another surge.

People who were at the same place as the Sydney… Video, Audio

The start of the Australian school holidays was meant to be a lifeline for Queenstown's beleaguered businesses, instead that lifeblood has been cut off.

The government has closed the trans-Tasman… Video, Audio

So far so good - there are no community cases of Covid-19, but the Minister is warning it is still early days.

The Wellington region moved to Alert Level 2 on Wednesday after an Australian tourist… Video, Audio

Thousands of people in Wellington have been told to isolate and get tested, some for as long as two weeks, depending on where they were.

The central city community testing centre was inundated with… Video, Audio

The Wellington region goes into Covid-19 alert level 2 restrictions from 6pm on Wednesday.

Among those rules are: social distancing, no gatherings over 100, strict rules for hospitality venues and… Video, Audio

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has announced an extended pause on quarantine free travel with Victoria as the outbreak of Covid-19 in Melbourne continues.

The pause will be in place for at… Audio

From midnight Victoria will go into lockdown for seven days as the state frantically tries to cram a lid on the rapidly growing number of Covid-19 cases.

And late this afternoon the Covid-19 Response… Audio

From Friday, Victoria will be heading into a seven-day lockdown in attempts to curb a growing Covid-19 outbreak.

The state recorded another 11 cases overnight taking the total of the cluster to 26.

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New Zealand has extended its pause on quarantine free travel with Victoria for another seven days.

The government of Victoria today put the state in lockdown for a week to contain the Covid-19… Audio

Nick Truebridge joins Lisa Owen live from Rarotonga on day one of the NZ-Cook Islands travel bubble.

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