Where can I travel in Australia with no Covid border restrictions for holiday?

That Australian road trip you've been dreaming of for the past two years is about to become possible again, at least along the east coast. 

The hermit state of Western Australia is, as it has been throughout the pandemic, a no go zone, after Mark McGowan labelled every other area of the country 'extreme risk'.

But to the joy and relief of tourism operators and those with very itchy feet after lockdowns, Queensland is removing the last bits of its hard border regime on Saturday. 

This will make Australia's east coast entirely free of Covid-19 travel restrictions - meaning an uninterrupted trip from Melbourne to Townsville as of Saturday.

Queensland's $27.3billion tourism, which has been slammed by Covid restrictions in the state, welcomed the move and hoped that visitors will soon return.  

On Thursday, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the change will relieve the burden on police who had enforced the state's strict border regime for months on end. 

'Now is the time for the barricades to come down and for the police to come home and the police to continue about their normal operational duties on the frontline as they are needed throughout the state as we face this Omicron wave,' she said.

'This is the time, and the time is now right as we head towards hitting that 90 per cent (of people double vaccinated) next week. We need to take this step.'

Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind said the decision was a 'strong signal of hope' to the industry. 

'Importantly, it signals a change in the mood of the nation and the mood of us individually,' Mr Gschwind told The Australian.

'There is indeed a future and we don't have to remain in this ­disaster mode forever.'

He said there is still a long way to go to fully recover, though. 

'Our tourism industry finds itself in a really difficult time … because of the staff shortages and ongoing uncertainty and lack of consumer confidence in travelling.