News and Updates

As of 03 March 2020, UQ has updated travel restrictions due to COVID-19.

As of 2 February 2020, the Australian Government has raised their travel advice for China overall to do not travel, due to the spread of the 2019-novel coronavirus.

On 01 February 2020, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) updated their travel advice for travellers to do not travel to China.

As of 28 January 2020 the Australian Government has raised their travel advice to do not travel for all of the Hubei Province in China and reconsider your need to travel to China overall due to the spread of the 2019-novel coronavirus.

On 24 January 2020 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) updated their travel advice for travellers to do not travel to and from Wuhan City and Hubei Province (China).

On 23 January 2020 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) updated their travel advice for travellers to reconsider their need to travel to and from Wuhan City in Hubei Province (China).

The Vice-Chancellor has announced UQ has appointed FCM Travel Solutions (FCM) to manage our travel arrangements until 2022.

Smarttraveller launched their new website and enhanced services on Thursday, 21 November 2019. Any current subscriptions to Smarttraveller updates will not be carried over and you must re-subscribe to continue to receive travel advice updates.

Any travel to or via Hong Kong that is not necessary should be avoided where possible.

From 1 October 2019, New Zealand will implement an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) as a new security and facilitation measure.