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Agreed ….. with the whole country padlocked theres only so many grey nomads who could be in places like Broome… surely mining tourism will start to pressure
Maybe join the local criminals.…Maybe check the local criminal groups if there is anyone starting a people smuggling business.
If they’ve lost substantial parts of the customer base, then maybe they don’t need the workers anyway. When NSW closed the border to Victoria in mid 2020, there was no consideration for locals, or any real border bubble. They soon found out that many of their hospital staff came from the south. NSW businesses lost about 60% of their customer base, because it actually includes the regions to the south, and not just Wodonga. The regions to the north gravitate to Wagga, not Albury, so there was less buffer than you might expect.Not to over look the obvious but with borders shut some businesses are reporting worker shortages in some areas. So we may see start to see illegal workers crossing the border from NSW to QLD to fill the gaps.
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Yes, plenty but patrolled by SAPOL.
If you are caught not only are you fined but you will be detained for 14 days.
Although there's no hard borders, some of the NSW regional towns and Canberra are anxious the SYD tradies, banned from worksites there, will come looking for work.... and bring covid with them.Not to over look the obvious but with borders shut some businesses are reporting worker shortages in some areas. So we may see start to see illegal workers crossing the border from NSW to QLD to fill the gaps.
Yes, but this person in the article needed to get back in straight away presumably for work?Just a hypothetical - if arrested by SAPOL on a back road going from Broken Hill to Adelaide where would they take you after being arrested? Probably to the Adelaide police station to be charged, and once charged and provided bail is made where would you end up? Adelaide. As someone else mentioned - its all a cost-benefit analysis.....
"If you want to travel to Victoria from those four local government areas, you would need a permit.
"We’re only granting permits for those who are approved workers.
"And even only then when it is absolutely necessary.
"I take no pleasure in having to essentially lock out those four communities from Victoria, but there’s a refusal to lock people in Sydney into Sydney, so I have no choice but to make these changes.
"I will foreshadow with you that there will be further border changes.
"I’m not in a place to announce those today but I’ll announce those as soon as we can.
"We have to do everything we can to keep this virus out of our state and it’s obviously regrettable that we’ve had to do that all the way down at the Murray but we’ll do what we can.
“I can’t control the settings in capital cities other than our own but these are the rules and these are the changes that we’ve made.”
Well that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that Victoria has a megalomaniac Premier obsessed with COVID-zero making a political stunt. There's zero reason to stop border communities travelling to other border communities interstate. Unnecessary restrictions needlessly put lives at risk and affect livelihoods.Victoria taking matters into their own hands if Gladys won’t
Nonsense. They need to do whatever they can to limit the possibility for border incursions. Despite being a fan of 'there must be another option' I've never once seen you describe what this alternative to covid zero is. So please do. NSW tried the TTI approach and it has dramatically failed. So what is the alternative approach?Well that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that Victoria has a megalomaniac Premier obsessed with COVID-zero making a political stunt.
More cases today in regional NSW wasn’t there?Well that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that Victoria has a megalomaniac Premier obsessed with COVID-zero making a political stunt. There's zero reason to stop border communities travelling to other border communities interstate. Unnecessary restrictions needlessly put lives at risk and affect livelihoods.
Well that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that Victoria has a megalomaniac Premier obsessed with COVID-zero making a political stunt. There's zero reason to stop border communities travelling to other border communities interstate. Unnecessary restrictions needlessly put lives at risk and affect livelihoods.
Nonsense. They need to do whatever they can to limit the possibility for border incursions. Despite being a fan of 'there must be another option' I've never once seen you describe what this alternative to covid zero is. So please do. NSW tried the TTI approach and it has dramatically failed. So what is the alternative approach?
If VIC's contact tracing is still hopeless he should fix that rather than criticising NSW.
This zero tolerance for risk is causing so much grief to so many. I don't live in regional area so this doesn't affect me, but restrictions on regional communities cause a lot of grief for these communities including for basic things like routine medical appointments.
It demonstrably isn't. Have you not seen what they just did? It seems perhaps you'd rather just trot out the same old tropes.If VIC's contact tracing is still hopeless
They didn’t do their job without also doing a lockdown of the whole state despite most of regional Victoria having zero cases and some areas having had no cases at all this year.It demonstrably isn't. Have you not seen what they just did? It seems perhaps you'd rather just trot out the same old tropes.
Contact tracing doesn’t stop an infected person carrying the virus across a state border and infecting others. Strict lockdowns also don’t stop people attending urgent medical appointments or seeing their GP.If VIC's contact tracing is still hopeless he should fix that rather than criticising NSW.
This zero tolerance for risk is causing so much grief to so many. I don't live in regional area so this doesn't affect me, but restrictions on regional communities cause a lot of grief for these communities including for basic things like routine medical appointments.
Oh for goodness sake….. just look at what happened in this particular instance rather than looking to L what happened earlier in the year. Vic govt said they would lift lockdown early in regional VIC if there was no evidence of spread or significant numbers of primary contacts in regional Vic. Unfortunately due to the MCG spread there were multiple cases in regional Vic and the “hopeless” contact tracers identified primary contacts from Mildura to Mallacoota and everywhere in between.They didn’t do their job without also doing a lockdown of the whole state despite most of regional Victoria having zero cases and some areas having had no cases at all this year.
Unlike other outbreaks this one did actually quickly disperse from metro Melbourne. Mooraboolshire, Mildura, Phillip Island, the Bellarine, Gippsland. Were you looking at a different outbreak? SA took the same approach...their lockdown ends tonight too.They didn’t do their job without also doing a lockdown of the whole state despite most of regional Victoria having zero cases and some areas having had no cases at all this year.