Sydneysiders Free to Head for the Top End of Australia

Tourists gather to watch sunset colours on Uluru, also known as Ayers rock, after a permanent ban on climbing the monolith at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia's Northern Territory on October 26, 2019. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

Sydneysiders are once again free to travel to the Top End after the Northern Territory’s decision to lift its COVID-19 hotspot declaration for the harbour city.

The decision takes effect from Friday and will remove the need for people travelling from Sydney to do 14 days of supervised quarantine.