Queensland on Wednesday night upgraded its NSW border ban to include all of Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Shellharbour.
New Zealand first paused the bubble to Victoria for an initial 72 hours in May, but that was repeatedly extended as the state entered its fourth lockdown.
The global defence contractor new sensor — a fully-digital open mission systems (OMS)-compliant wideband active electronically scanned array (AESA) — has been successfully deployed during a flight test.
The decision follows the Australian state recording 10 new local cases of COVID, though significantly eight of those were already isolating and nine were close contacts to previously identified cases.
The news marks a quiet end to Queensland’s previous contentious policy that specified it would only ease border restrictions following 28 days of no unlinked cases via community transmission.
The organisation's CEO, Willie Walsh, has said he finds it "incredible" that citizens are "tolerating" the situation where they’re not allowed to travel.