{"id":616798,"date":"2026-09-30T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616798\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:36:10","slug":"full-video-national-eyes-seamless-travel-with-australia-by-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616798\/","title":{"rendered":"Full video: National eyes seamless travel with Australia by 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National says it would aim to trial seamless Australia-NZ travel, allowing eligible travellers to use digital credentials and biometrics through more of the airport journey.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from Queenstown, Christopher Luxon said the plan would mean faster airport processing and no paper passport at the gate, while maintaining border security.<\/p>\n<p>The Party aimed to introduce the trial before the 2028 ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, which New Zealand and Australia will co-host.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full announcement above, and follow our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/27\/politics-live-national-and-labour-to-launch-election-campaigns-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">political liveblog here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National says it would aim to trial seamless Australia-NZ travel, allowing eligible travellers to use digital credentials and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11508,11507,111,43,139,69,135,270122],"class_list":["post-616798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christopher-luxon","tag-national-party","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}