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'Unlikely' Australia's international borders will reopen before next federal election: Uhlmann
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is "in absolutely no hurry" to reopen Australia's borders to international travel, despite growing concerns about stranded Australians after more than a year of COVID-19 closures.
Nine's political editor Chris Uhlmann says that this hesitancy is politically motivated, with a federal election due to be called by May next year.
"The Prime Minister has seen that state premiers have done very well, thank you very much, by having the borders closed, people keeping safe; that people have put a premium on their health," he told Weekend Today.
"So he's in no rush about it. I very much doubt the borders will open before the federal election is called and won by the Coalition — or so he hopes."
The government outlined the potential for borders to reopen mid-next year in its May Budget, but is refusing to outline any definitive timetable.
And when borders do reopen, it's likely to be in a staggered way with some "green" countries admitted while others remain barred, mirroring the approach adopted by the UK and Europe.
However, that timeframe is well beyond what is hoped for by Australia's struggling airlines.
Only last week, Qantas outlined plans to resume international flights by the end of December — a schedule that now looks unlikely.
Uhlmann notes that Australia's success in quelling the pandemic means there is "no tolerance" for any COVID-19 circulating in the community.
"When we to start to reopen the borders, the thing we're going to have to get used to is the idea that the disease will circulate here in Australia," he said.
"The disease will eventually come here and some people will die of it, particularly those who have decided they're not going to be vaccinated.
"We can't keep the disease out of Australia forever when it's become endemic in the rest of the world."
Experts believe that around 80 to 85 per cent of the population would need to be fully vaccinated in order to resume international travel without COVID-19 taking off in the Australian community.
But that figure could be difficult to reach, with a recent Resolve Political Monitor survey indicating 29 per cent of Australians were "not very likely" or "not likely at all" to take the COVID vaccine in the coming months.
In a move the government hopes will speed up the country's beleaguered rolled, it was this morning revealed that two million doses of the Pfizer vaccine would become available in Australia every week from October.
As the two Pfizer shots are administered closer together, this could allow every Australian to be fully vaccinated by the year's end.
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