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David Seymour: "Tourist operators in Te Anau (pictured) must be scratching their heads in bewilderment that they can welcome Aucklanders who were locked down by Covid eight weeks ago, but not people from Western Australia who haven't seen a case of the virus for seven months." Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

A quarantine-free transtasman bubble before Christmas is off the cards and unlikely to be implemented before February at the earliest, The New Zealand Herald understands.