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The prime minister is asked about reports that Australians overseas cannot book flights home before the end of the year.
Well, we have been running more commercial flights and if we need to, we will, but once we hit 80% vaccinations, then that means Australians will be able to travel in those states that are opening up, they will be able to get on planes and go overseas and come home, and that means Australian whose are overseas who are vaccinated with the vaccines that are recognised in Australia will be able to get on planes and come to Australia.
The caps at the airports for vaccinated Australians to return will be lifted, and that means there will be the commercial demand for those flights to be put on. I don’t think Qantas will have to be encouraged to start running those flights and putting people on seats, and I’m looking forward to them getting on with that job, because that’s the business they are in.
Morrison is asked about China’s “belligerence” in the region.
He says:
Well, what we talked about today is how we achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific, and the way you do that is that countries like Australia and India and the United States and Japan ... we stand up for the values that we believe in, and we resist any suggestion or any pressure that would come on any of us to be anything different to what we are.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/sep/25/australia-covid-news-live-update-melbourne-and-sydney-brace-for-protests-as-victoria-set-to-miss-first-roadmap-target
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