Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the australasian island has employed strict border rules, even banning its own people from leaving the country.
States with vaccination rates above 80% will be given the right to travel overseas, but, according to the BBC, international visitors will not immediately be allowed back in.
An Australian government spokesperson reportedly said it was working "towards welcoming tourists back to our shores".
On Friday (1 October), the country’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, reportedly said Australia’s mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine would be phased out and replaced by seven days of home quarantine for vaccinated travellers.
Unvaccinated travellers will have to isolate for 14 days once they are given permission to enter.
