Australian state border restrictions

[MelMel]

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I’m watching this all unfold from DRW.
I’m from Regional NSW and I arrived yesterday.
Flight SYD-DRW
The flight was truly disturbing
There were multiple passengers on there who live and work in Sydney but have family in Perth and the only way for them to get back to WA is to fly to Darwin and do 14 days quarantine at Howard Springs at own expense and then fly to PER.
One guy tried 4 times to get an exemption to fly SYD-PER as his mum is having cancer surgery and was rejected so opted for the DRW quarantine then off to PER.
I don’t think I know what it is to be Australian anymore.
The federation feels broken

This happened last year to a friend in Melbourne. His Father was dying in Queensland and they refused multiple applications for him to enter. He spent two weeks in Howard Sprints then flew to Qld. Fortunately in time to say goodbye

 

[jrfsp]

On the topic of NT - they just declared all of NSW a hotspot

 

[nutwood]

On the topic of NT - they just declared all of NSW a hotspot

It's the same for us in Tasmania, all of NSW is High Risk, Level 1. Whilst I appreciate that it's easy to be critical, I can't help feel that NSW has stuffed up in not protecting their regional areas. Can understand the problems along the coast but it should have been possible to shield the inland towns from this slowly unfolding train wreck.

 

[jrfsp]

It's the same for us in Tasmania, all of NSW is High Risk, Level 1. Whilst I appreciate that it's easy to be critical, I can't help feel that NSW has stuffed up in not protecting their regional areas. Can understand the problems along the coast but it should have been possible to shield the inland towns from this slowly unfolding train wreck.

Indeed, i cant believe there are no checks at airports or roadblocks? - just reliance on people to do the right thing......I read in the weekends AFR that the ACT is also looking at potentially closing its border - but how they would do that i have no idea

 

[Seat0B]

I don’t think I know what it is to be Australian anymore.
The federation feels broken

Exactly how I feel too @Princess Fiona and I don’t like it one little bit.

 

[dajop]

This is where a state by state basis to COVID is truly failing the nation. It always should have been a region-by-region approach. It's quite easy to draw lines around particular geographical areas which are tied economically within or across state boundaries.

Even with the current Vic lockdown, I was reading an article about people living in Gol Gol, and someone who had opted to self-impose the same restrictions as Mildura after the cases and exposure sites there. In practice this is just a suburb of Mildura and should have had the same restrictions as the rest of Mildura.

 

[nutwood]

Indeed, i cant believe there are no checks at airports or roadblocks? - just reliance on people to do the right thing......I read in the weekends AFR that the ACT is also looking at potentially closing its border - but how they would do that i have no idea

Logically, you drive out of Canberra until the road is travelling through open country. You then install a manned road block. Repeat for each road leading out. Very minor roads you pick a narrow spot and install a couple of large boulders.
Unfortunately, this approach would lock parts of NSW into the ACT. Oh dear!

 

[oz_mark]

I don’t think I know what it is to be Australian anymore.
The federation feels broken

Somewhere along the line, 'we're all in this together' became 'dog eat dog'. An the premiers have certainly run with it.

 

[jase05]

Logically, you drive out of Canberra until the road is travelling through open country. You then install a manned road block. Repeat for each road leading out. Very minor roads you pick a narrow spot and install a couple of large boulders.
Unfortunately, this approach would lock parts of NSW into the ACT. Oh dear!

Not to mention that some suburbs in Canberra straddle the border. A couple of new housing developments have streets where the border runs down the middle. Causing them all sorts of issues with council rates, water, gas etc

 

[Pushka]

Somewhere along the line, 'we're all in this together' became 'dog eat dog'. An the premiers have certainly run with it.

SA still trots out that line except now it’s specifically “SA people are all in this together”.

 

[Seat0B]

SA still trots out that line except now it’s specifically “SA people are all in this together”.

Yep just like Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders.

 

[jb747]

Victoria taking matters into their own hands if Gladys won’t

Which was more or less the justification for Gladys closing the border on Victoria. Albury Wodonga is the only large city that straddles the border, and thus far neither side has shown any understanding of how the city works.

 

[jase05]

Tasmania opening to SA at midnight

 

[bcworld]

And NT already open to Victoria and SA.

 

[VPS]

Tasmania opening to SA at midnight

I wonder if it's dryer and warmer than SA at the moment

 

[blackcat20]

Hopefully Qld open to vic soon, I'd like to go on one of the trips we've booked....

 

[kyle]

Hopefully Qld open to vic soon, I'd like to go on one of the trips we've booked....

Same. Maybe my end of Aug Hamilton Island trip is looking good again.

 

[nutwood]

I wonder if it's dryer and warmer than SA at the moment

From personal experience, I can assure you that it's not!

 

[drron]

Launceston forecast.

 

[dajop]

Which was more or less the justification for Gladys closing the border on Victoria. Albury Wodonga is the only large city that straddles the border, and thus far neither side has shown any understanding of how the city works.

Maybe it's time for Alb-Wodexit ...