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Old 02-03-2009, 07:53 PM   #1
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Easing travel regulations

Mr Rudd and Mr Key also hope to come to an agreement within a year over relaxing travel regulations for those moving between Australia and New Zealand.

"It involves security questions, immigration questions, customs questions, quarantine questions ... so that someone jumping on a plane here in Australia going to New Zealand goes through one set of arrangements and then can jump off in New Zealand at a domestic terminal and then the reverse for New Zealand travellers coming to Australia," Mr Rudd said.

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Old 02-03-2009, 08:24 PM   #2
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Very interesting. I assume that will mean you can travel there without a passport? Not sure how successful it would be though as it brings a load of problems, namely how do they track you and your stay without a passport/visa.
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Old 02-03-2009, 08:35 PM   #3
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I don't see the need.. I travel to Aus every now and then and it's easy enough, from plane to taxi in under 30minutes, everytime.
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:13 PM   #4
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Been in the pipeline many years, see also 'Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Agreement'.

NZ is Australia's eastern Islands, or we are NZ's western:-)
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:50 PM   #5
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i thought it said in the constitution that NZ was a state of Australia anyway?
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Old 03-03-2009, 12:47 AM   #6
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i thought it said in the constitution that NZ was a state of Australia anyway?
no it would only be classed as a territory.
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Old 03-03-2009, 09:32 AM   #7
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Nope, it's just a really large island off NSW's coast!

Why NZ? One would have thought with how many bloody Asians we have running around we already had domestic flights between Aus & Asia. :
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I travel to NZ quite a bit and never find it too much of a drama, typically just walk through with no queue. I would be happy to not have to be at Auckland Airport 2hrs before my flights though - 7am flight home means out of bed at 1am Bris time :(
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Old 03-03-2009, 12:57 PM   #9
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I hope this doesn't mean goodbye to Duty Free...

From memory, New Zealand was almost incorporated as part of Australia just prior to Federation via a referendum. Western Australia could have become a separate country at that time. Mind you, Australian history was many, many years ago for this little black duck...
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Old 03-03-2009, 01:31 PM   #10
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no it would only be classed as a territory.
Just like Tasmania

Shame we can't take on their car design rules......
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Old 03-03-2009, 01:37 PM   #11
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I seem to remember when you didn't need a passport to travel to NZ? late 60's??
(I think NZers always needed one to come here though?)
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I seem to remember when you didn't need a passport to travel to NZ? late 60's??
(I think NZers always needed one to come here though?)

Came in about the same time in the late 70's ...Aust brought in a requirement for NZers to have a passport first...NZ followed suit soon afterward...

EDIT : 1981 was the year the passport requirements were brought in
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Nooooo...last thing we want is to make it easier for them to get in!! :
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Nooooo...last thing we want is to make it easier for them to get in!! :
Its easier to send them home as well
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i just hope the last one to leave remembers to turn the lights off.
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Nooooo...last thing we want is to make it easier for them to get in!! :

Better it's us than some others you seem to attract here
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Haha Aussie will do anything to win at footy etc.. Lol...
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