[ChrisRR]

And are you going to keep your borders closed forever?

And i guarantee some people still have it. There's no way it's been eradicated completely. All it takes is for one infected person to visit 2 people, and those 2 people to visit 2 others.

[prawn]

And presumably that's been happening for months, yet there are limited outbreaks and they are swiftly contained through contact tracing and quarantine.

Victoria was swamped yet has not had a case for 30 days now. Cross-border travel varies depending on the status of each state, but is tracked and quarantine enforced at various levels if it's available.

Testing is freely available and fairly fast.

Nationwide, there is currently one locally acquired case over the last 7 days, and 74 from overseas in the same period.

Presumably we'll bubble with NZ at some point and carefully go from there, plus see how the availability of vaccines starts to change the equation beyond that. In my circles, people are keen to travel again, but everyone is pretty matter of fact about the situation and curious about timings rather than desperate to open up.