Eve Lawrence: Haka Tourism GM says we should reconsider Sir John Key's idea of making trans-Tasman travel domestic

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A tourism boss says we should reconsider Sir John Key's 2009 idea of making trans-Tasman travel domestic. In 2009, the then Prime Minister floated the idea of passport-free travel between Australia and New Zealand. But the idea was shut down with Australia's changing of prime ministers and a tightening of their border. Haka Tourism Group general manager Eve Lawrence told Mike Hosking it will not just have a tourism benefit, but also an economic one. She says pre-Covid we were paying around $400 to go to Australia, but nearly half of that was border levies and customs taxes. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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