The chief executive of Melbourne Airport has suggested Australia shouldn’t wait for a vaccine to open its international borders.
Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge also admitted Victorian COVID-19 cases have pushed back the plan to create a travel bubble with New Zealand.
The majority of the money, $737 million, will be spent extending Tindal's runway and creating a new fuel storage facility for larger aircraft.
Webjet has launched a new carbon offset program in response to its customers “increasingly demanding” more sustainable travel options.
A US Air Force B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit took part in a joint US-Australian long-range strike exercise in the Northern Territory.
However, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that all states had agreed to a definition of what constitutes of a COVID-19 “hotspot”.