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The promised Trans-Tasman Travel bubble, which was supposed to enable unrestricted two-way travel between Australia and New Zealand, has drifted further into the never-never.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday put the proposal on ice in response to Australia’s knee-jerk response over a recent single community transmission in Auckland:
On Tuesday in Wellington, she said grimly “things have changed a little bit since we set that goal and aspiration”…
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.