Australia has as we speak dismantled a serious barrier to worldwide vacationers visiting down beneath.
Greater than two years after the coronavirus pandemic started, abroad travellers not want to supply a destructive pre-departure COVID-19 check earlier than flying.
This implies travellers can keep away from RATs and costly PCR assessments which needed to be taken inside 72 hours of boarding a flight, with a dreaded optimistic end result inflicting untold chaos to a passenger's itinerary.
Worldwide travellers should nonetheless present proof of double vaccination and masks stay mandated on worldwide flights.
Unvaccinated travellers could also be required to quarantine on arrival in Australia at their very own expense, whereas some international locations and airways require outbound passengers from Australia to take a pre-departure check earlier than they'll journey.
The ending of the federal government's long-running Biosecurity Emergency Willpower heralds the return of cruise ships to Australian ports.
Travellers arriving on cruise ships should full a Maritime Journey Declaration, documenting well being and different data, earlier than they disembark.
It's now as much as people states to determine if cruise ships can enter.
NSW, Victoria and Queensland will welcome vessels, with the P&O's 266-metre lengthy Pacific Explorer set to dock in Sydney this morning.
Cruise liners had been banned by the Federal Authorities since March 15, 2020, days after the notorious docking of the Ruby Princess the place lots of of sick passengers went onshore.