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