Are Vaccine Passports Our Ticket To Freedom?

Every day, the state and Federal Governments are begging us to go and get vaccinated for COVID-19, not only for our own benefit, but also for others as millions of Aussies remain in lockdown and suffering from pandemic fatigue.

But what happens when we do reach a point when most of us have had the jab? Could vaccine passports be the way to guarantee a future free from lockdowns and travel restrictions?

The Quicky speaks to an expert in tourism, an infectious disease specialist, and the Federal Minister for for Trade, Tourism and Investment to find out when vaccine passports might become a reality, and how exactly they will work.

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CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Gemma Bath

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Guests:

Associate Professor Pierre Benckendorff - Award-winning researcher specialising in visitor behaviour, technology enhanced learning and tourism, based in the School of business at the University of Queensland

Associate Professor Paul Griffin - Infectious Diseases Physician, Microbiologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland's Faculty of Medicine

Dan Tehan - Federal Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, member of the Liberal Party, and the Federal Member for Wannon in Victoria

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