Australian state border restrictions

[bcworld]

Seems like Tassie is still just restricting travel from the original 7 LGAs in Greater Sydney...bit surprising. I guess will change soon?

 

[jrfsp]

Seems like Tassie is still just restricting travel from the original 7 LGAs in Greater Sydney...bit surprising. I guess will change soon?

And ACT too?

 

[louie-m]

Apologies if this is has been covered before, I confess I have not read much of this thread as I already spend too much of my time tearing my hair out and wailing after reading other Covid related stuff on here....

Situation: in northern NSW (Bellingen) and have been for over 14 days. Want to cross the border by land into Queensland next weekend. The Queensland Travel Declaration page says you either need to make a Travel Declaration or apply for a Border Pass. The Travel Declaration is for when you have not been to a Covid hotspot, which I haven't, so it sounds like that is the one for me. However, if you have been to a state or territory that has a declared COVID-19 hotspot in the last 14 days, you need to apply for a Border Pass. So that is the one for me too. It seems that both apply to me - and to anyone from NSW who has not been in Sydney lately - despite only one being supposed to be relevant. Or am I missing something?

 

[jb747]

If you go here:

Travelling to Queensland

Restrictions on travel into and out of Queensland

www.qld.gov.au

and click on the map, it tells you what you need.

 

[nutwood]

I’m actually quite surprised/pleased that VIC and TAS are holding out on not banning NSW....

Seems like Tassie is still just restricting travel from the original 7 LGAs in Greater Sydney...bit surprising. I guess will change soon?

This is actually presenting us a problem in another way. I have a Tasmanian job next week with people from Sydney. They are not from the 7 LGA's so can travel to Tassie and can see no reason to cancel. I sympathise with them but am not so optimistic. If they cancelled, I could book other work in.
We really need clear and consistent guidlines. On track record, Tassie has been very quick to shut borders but there's no job keeper now and they may be having to factor the cost in? Or perhaps they'll slam the door tomorrow? Who knows? Makes it very hard to run a business. We can work around closed borders but uncertainty is a killer.

 

[jrfsp]

ACT now basically closing to Sydneysiders

Anyone entering the ACT who left Sydney after 4:00pm subject to stay-at-home orders

Anyone who left metropolitan Sydney after 4:00pm must stay at home upon entering the ACT, unless undertaking certain essential activities, until 11:59pm on Friday, July 2.

www.abc.net.au

 

[louie-m]

If you go here:

Travelling to Queensland

Restrictions on travel into and out of Queensland

www.qld.gov.au

and click on the map, it tells you what you need.

Except that it is out of date given that Stephen Miles today announced that the northern-most people who were exempt no longer are.

Looks like everyone is going to have to do a Border Pass. Shame the wording of the website is misleading as I'm sure many people will only get as far down the page as discovering they only have to do a Travel Declaration and then will fall foul of the rules.

 

[Must...Fly!]

On track record, Tassie has been very quick to shut borders but there's no job keeper now and they may be having to factor the cost in?

I guess we will find out in time, but given the approaching school holidays, there has to be some pressure from the electorate to keep things relatively open for the sake of putting dinner on the table and not sinking even further in to debt

 

[Seat0B]

This is actually presenting us a problem in another way. I have a Tasmanian job next week with people from Sydney. They are not from the 7 LGA's so can travel to Tassie and can see no reason to cancel. I sympathise with them but am not so optimistic. If they cancelled, I could book other work in.
We really need clear and consistent guidlines. On track record, Tassie has been very quick to shut borders but there's no job keeper now and they may be having to factor the cost in? Or perhaps they'll slam the door tomorrow? Who knows? Makes it very hard to run a business. We can work around closed borders but uncertainty is a killer.

I have similar issues with interstate clients. one in particular has their HQ in SA, and flies in staff from other states, mainly NSW, for training with me. the NSW people are from Sydney and also Newcastle region. I come from ACT. It gets very complicated trying to work it all out. And most of my work then ends up being cancelled at the last minute, which makes it hard to book in other work. We really need to do better than this constant see saw border slamming and also start to make allowances for people who are vaccinated.

 

[jakeseven7]

I guess we will find out in time, but given the approaching school holidays, there has to be some pressure from the electorate to keep things relatively open for the sake of putting dinner on the table and not sinking even further in to debt

Yes hence the floodgates opening back up to VIC!

 

[Ade]

And ACT too?

The recommendation from my place of work is to avoid any travel to any part of SYD.

My hunch is there will be a soft lock on the borders over the weekend or at least from Monday next week.

I'm now CBR based, but I have been so only for the past week. Until last week, I was SYD based. I still have a lot of my stuff laying in my apartment in western sydney. I was going to go to SYD this week and do a bit more packing and shipping. Now, I won't be doing that ...

 

[Ade]

I guess we will find out in time, but given the approaching school holidays, there has to be some pressure from the electorate to keep things relatively open for the sake of putting dinner on the table and not sinking even further in to debt

I agree with your view and I understand the economic implication. But truth be told, I'm more concerned about the health implication and the thought that someone who has been in SYD in the past week, could be potentially exposed to infections.

I mean, if you look at it closely, we could say as long as that person has not been to the identified hotspots they should be ok ... but it's not a concrete thing to say ... Also given that the new variant needs only, according to health experts, 10 to 15 seconds to transmit - I'd be worried if anyone has been in SYD this weekend and is coming into work Monday ...

At least for the sake of mental peace - there should be very limited border crossings until there is improvement in SYD ... This may not work for everyone, but where possible, it would be great if restraint can be practised

 

[Carrots]

Everybody is concerned about work and holiday travels (and rightly so health as well).... meanwhile I just want to know what will happen to Game 3 of Origin!

 

[Lynda2475]

Everybody is concerned about work and holiday travels (and rightly so health as well).... meanwhile I just want to know what will happen to Game 3 of Origin!

Given it is played at Olympic Park which is not in a restricted LGA - no reason for it not to go ahead.

 

[Port Power]

I have landed from Brisbane and am allowed to go home per my G2G pass. However, also per the G2G pass, I have to self isolate at home for 14 days, but only from the date I was at Sydney airport, not from today. That’s a bonus. (I’m being positive.)

 

[Port Power]

I guess we will find out in time, but given the approaching school holidays, there has to be some pressure from the electorate to keep things relatively open for the sake of putting dinner on the table and not sinking even further in to debt

The Qld Premier and CHO mentioned that it was because school holidays were looming that they closed the land border with NSW as they didn’t want potential contamination coming across the border.

 

[Lynda2475]

school holidays were looming

Although today was the last day of the term for most public schools in NSW, most private schools wrapped up the term last Friday (and heaps of them are in the lockdown LGAs) and many Catholic schools since Wednesday. So many would have travelled well before today.

 

[justinbrett]

The Qld Premier and CHO mentioned that it was because school holidays were looming that they closed the land border with NSW as they didn’t want potential contamination coming across the border.

It's not closed, it's controlled. The vast majority of NSW (geographically) can still enter QLD, including urban areas like Newcastle. The border closures are very, very far from fool proof, as the restriction isn't based on residency. A Sydney resident can enter if they've been out of Sydney for two weeks.

The only thing certain is the traffic jams it will cause on the border which will result in Queensland closing the border completely as they did last time (only border zone residents could drive through - every one else with a permit had to fly)

 

[Must...Fly!]

Yes hence the floodgates opening back up to VIC!

Hopefully WA want Victorian holidaymakers money now no one in NSW can come and spend...

 

[drron]

Everybody is concerned about work and holiday travels (and rightly so health as well).... meanwhile I just want to know what will happen to Game 3 of Origin!

Aren't you watching it tonight.QLD up by 2 points at half time.
Well the women's State of Origin.