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Auckland's Hauraki Gulf on Wednesday. They steadily extended After securing the favoured right-hand that lead during the race, side of the course in another tight battle off the start line, Team New Zealand got finishing 46 seconds Te Rehutai's nose in front to go through ahead and claiming the the first gate with a narrow seven-second title 7-3 in the best-of-13 lead. series. That buffer was out to nine seconds In what was a thrilling ninth race of after leg two, but it was the third of six the Cup match on Tuesday, Luna Rossa legs when the defenders really extended held a narrow lead through almost five to put one hand on the Cup again. legs of the six leg race on course C under Team New Zealand powered downwind the shadow of North Head. Team New to be 27 seconds in front at the halfway Zealand had rarely trailed by more than mark of the race and, with a 37 second 100 metres however, and the defenders lead at gate number four, all that was powered past in the fifth leg. required was two mistake-free legs to With Team New Zealand anticipating secure the series. the chance to lift the Auld Mug yesterday That was exactly what they produced, a wind changes postponed race 10, keeping things calm and composed in handing the Italians a lifeline. the last push to the finish before the Course A was selected as day's race celebrations finally broke out as they track, with wind conditions expected crossed the line. -RNZ to range from 7 to 11 knots from the Don’t dream it’s paid off - Live it now Mortgage Genius Plan designed to get you where you want to be financially! 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A travel bubble with Australia clearly domestic tourism would see Many migrant workers who came has more than an economic impact, but a tourism revenue return to 70 through the border before it closed last significant social impact too. per cent of pre-Covid levels. year have been kept apart from their We have been told for months that a That would make a huge partners and children. trans-Tasman bubble is being worked on, difference to the businesses There is no pathway for their families but our borders remain sealed. on the West Coast, in Te Anau, to come to New Zealand and be reunited, National is calling on the Government Queenstown and across the and it is causing many to seriously to make this a priority. New Zealanders country that are crying out for consider leaving New Zealand. deserve action now. this investment. Migrant nurses are one example ecently the National Party has been Both countries have a of those workers who arrived in New Rpushing for the Government to open similar Covid profile and Australia has Zealand before the borders closed and a travel bubble with Australia. proven a bubble can work. have been separated from their children. This would see mean people coming Australia opened their border to The only option for these nurses from Australia could bypass our Managed New Zealanders in October, and it has is to leave, at a time when our nurse Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities worked, showing us the risks associated workforce is critically short-staffed, and if they provide a negative Covid-19 pre- with a two-way bubble are minimal and we are about to undertake the biggest departure test within 72 hours of travel. manageable. vaccination programme in living memory. It may seem like a small thing, opening But just as important as the economic It is not just our nurses though, this travel with Australia, but it has big boost a trans-Tasman bubble would have, issue risks eroding our critical migrant implications on our economy. it would also free up space in our MIQ workforce more widely – our medical Before Covid hit, 40 per cent of tourist facilities. specialists, mathematics teachers, visitors to New Zealand were from Managed isolation is overrun with long engineers, and tech experts – because Australia. delays because 40 per cent of places are those workers have no hope on the Right now, our tourism industry is being taken up by Kiwis returning from horizon of being reunited with their Judith Collins on its knees, begging for help. A trans- Australia where there is little, if any, risk of families. National party leader based in Auckland. Tasman bubble would be a lifeline for Covid-19. Freeing up those beds in MIQ by Leader of the opposition, Member for those businesses. This would make a huge difference to created a trans-Tasman bubble would Papkura, National Party. Surprise, vaccine roll out stuck in first gear! When vaccines hit our shores earlier “The Prime Minister was even asked by jabbing just 1171. Bloomfield admitted at last Wednesday’s “than Ministers expected last month a member of the media how it felt to be “As of 16 March, 161,873 Australians media update, his people are still working and our first vaccinations started a day outstripping the Aussies in delivering the had received their first dose, and some are out the fundamentals of how New ahead of Australia, there was much glee vaccine. starting to receive their second. As of last Zealanders will be vaccinated, including among some in the commentariat that “She was right to demur in her Wednesday, New Zealand's number was whether there will be a region-by-region New Zealand might catch up with the response, because today, despite the around 18,000.