"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.”