INTERNATIONAL: Australia will reopen its international border from November, allowing vaccinated travellers into the country for the first time in 18 months. Currently only citizens and people with exemptions can enter. Outbound travel is also banned without an exemption. The policy had been praised for helping to suppress Covid, but it has also controversially separated families.

PM Scott Morrison said states with vaccination rates above 80% would get the travel freedoms. "It's time to give Australians their lives back," he told reporters on Friday. Some concerns have been raised as Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are currently in lockdown due to outbreaks of the virus and the airline industry doubt they can get ready in four weeks.