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Robyn Ironside is The Australian’s aviation writer, and has twice been recognised by the Australasian Aviation Press Club (in 2020 and 2023) as the best aviation journalist. She has been with The Australian since 2018, and covered aviation for News Corp since 2014 after previously reporting on Queensland state politics and crime with The Courier-Mail.

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25/11/2020: Noosa local and salesgirl at retailer Ã¢â¬ÅGoddessÃ¢â¬Â, Emma Coleman (L), with customer Zoe Duvall from NSW, on Hastings St, Noosa. The covid travel restriction on Victoria is due to be eased on Dec 1. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Travel freedom prompts bookings surge

The opening of the Queensland border to travellers from both Victoria and Sydney has led to a surge in holiday bookings that have surpassed pre-COVID levels.

Robyn Ironside and Charlie Peel

Pandemic gripesAviation

Senior Couple On Shore Facing and Looking at Docked Cruise Ship. seniors and retirees travel, holidays, generic

Travel complaints up 500 per cent

The consumer watchdog has seen a huge surge in complaints since the start of the yearndemic, with most generated by just one industry.

Robyn Ironside

New hotspot regimeNation

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk holding a press conference on the Speakers Green at Parliament House. Pic Peter Wallis

Finally, rivals end bitter border battle

Australians are expected to rush into Queensland after Annastacia Palaszczuk agreed to open the border.

Charlie Peel and Robyn Ironside

Aviation

24/11/2020: Sofitel Chef Katrina Jung with Jenna Burnes, regional developement manager, Brisbane. Both are happy they will be on the road back to normal after The covid travel restriction on Sydney is due to be eased on Dec 1. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Business ready to roll as border gates fall

Queensland’s reopening of borders to Sydney and Victoria has been received with relief and a degree of apprehension by the tourism industry.

Robyn Ironside and Charlie Peel

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

The coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent government imposed border closures and travel restrictions has severely impacted tourism in Cairns and Far North Queensland. An almost empty Qantas plane departs Cairns Airport. The company has lost a large amount of business because of the COVID-19 outbreak. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Airlines scramble extra flights as borders open

Qantas and Virgin Australia have crammed hundreds of extra flights into their schedule as the PM hails Qld border reopening.

Robyn Ironside, Angelica Snowden and Richard Ferguson

AviationAviation

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Qantas will cut at least 6,000 jobs across all parts of the business and continue to stand down 15000 employees as part of its plan to recover from the impact of the COVID pandemic. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Proof of vaccine could boost travel: Qantas boss

Qantas boss Alan Joyce has revealed plans are afoot to slash quarantine periods for foreign arrivals in Australia.

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Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 23: Sydney based Grandad Alan Kinkade reunites with his grandson Tom, who lives in Melbourne, after six months of separation at Sydney domestic airport at Sydney Airport on November 23, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The New South Wales reopened its border to Victoria at 12:01 on Monday 23 November, with people able to freely travel into NSW for the first time since border restrictions were put in place in July due to Victoria's second wave COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Heat on holdout Premier as border opens

Airlines and travel agents are sweating on Queensland to reopen borders to Sydney and Victoria but will have to wait another week to find out.

Robyn Ironside

AVIATIONAviation

ESCAPE: Adelaide, Australia - March 21, 2016: Planes from domestic air industry competitors and rivals Qantas and Virgin, coming and going from Adelaide airport. Picture: Istock

Clipped wings limit Virgin’s market share

Virgin Australia will face an uphill battle to regain its domestic market share, having already lost ground to rival Qantas.

Robyn Ironside

AviationAviation

Qantas airport baggage handlers wearing protective gear while the supervisor (Not Sure) but looks as if he was giving orders was not wearing any protective gear at all and was not practising safe distance rules.Thursday April 2 2020.PIC SUPPLIED

Qantas baggage handlers bid to save jobs

Qantas ground crews face a nervous wait after lodging a proposal to keep their jobs in-house.

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Nation

Channel 9 screen grabs of an accident on Boonah and Beaudesert Road where a car has gone into Wyaralong Dam Picture Channel 9

Children die after car veers into dam

Two children are dead and four people have been injured after a car crashed into a dam near Beaudesert, southwest of Brisbane.

Robyn Ironside and Kathy Skantzos

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