when will state borders re-open?

[CaptJCool]

Hey everyone

Seeing it’s April Fools day, I thought it might be fun to set up a thread to cater for a kind of guess the date a State border re-opens.


The idea is to pick a State and take a guess when one or more State border might re-open.

Queensland (NSW, NT, SA)
Northern Territory (QLD, SA, WA)
South Australia (borders to every mainland State)
Tasmania (?)
Western Australia (SA & NT)


So feel free to make a guess / prediction for one or more States.

For each guess, a month / year (perhaps a date, in case of need of tiebreaker) please

And thank you

PS There may be staggered border residents-openings eg SA:WA Might reopen before say SA:Vic but it’s hard to tell what might happen SO SOME LATITUDE about guesses is fair

 

[drron]

But what if Tassie and WA secede?

 

[AIRwin]

But what if Tassie and WA secede?

First class lounges in SYD and MEL will be busy all the time prior to PER flights...

 

[Matt_01]

After being stuck at home with the +1 for 15 days not soon enough. For the record MrsM feels the same way.

On topic I guess SA will be last and can only assume I will remain trapped in the DPRSA.

 

[Scarlett]

Qld will reopen all borders when they get to 2012.

Tassie will reopen their border when they can find someone with a job to go do it.

SA haven't actually closed their borders, they've just told everyone that they have. And that their closed borders are better than all those closed by the eastern states. (no one in the eastern states noticed)

WA, well that will be interesting. The rest of Australia won't let them reopen a border for 14 days after a vaccine has been developed and widely distributed, due to effects of the great cruise liner war of April 2020...


Sorry CaptJCool, couldn't resist.

 

[Matt_01]

SA haven't actually closed their borders, they've just told everyone that they have. And that their closed borders are better than all those closed by the eastern states. (no one in the eastern states noticed)

Are you suggesting that I could have escaped the DPRSA and been able to return.

 

[Hvr]

But what if Tassie and WA secede?

We'll probably save a lot of money by not giving it to them.

 

[CaptJCool]

We'll probably save a lot of money by not giving it to them.

Tassie won’t secede...
They’d have to pay their own way and why would you do that living off the “largesse Of others”

a lot of relatively uneducated middle-aged...


A lot of older folk


And lowest median & average incomes in the country


They work less too



Until Premier Hodgemen was elected, the highest level of education offered outside major cities was year 10!
To go to boarding school is an “arm and a leg”

2016 Tasmania, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics

quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au

 

[CaptJCool]

Looks like it’ll be no earlier than December 2020.... haha

1 Dec QLD reopens to NSW & Vic
8 Dec WA the same
11 Dec WA to review SA restrictions

 

[jb747]

Tasmania won’t secede. I’d just like it to....

 

[jb747]

And just like that. Closing again.

I wonder how long it will be before the airlines simply give up.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

And Victoria indicated it won’t be reopening on Wednesday......Christmas is done.

 

[james4321]

And just like that. Closing again.

I wonder how long it will be before the airlines simply give up.

Its actually not just about the airlines. They are just a business - like hundreds of others - that are operating under extremely difficult and constantly changing conditions.

 

[CaptJCool]

When they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only halfway up,
They were neither up nor down

 

[AIRwin]

Seeing it’s April Fools day, I thought it might be fun to set up a thread to cater for a kind of guess the date a State border re-opens.

Given the fall out from the current lock down in BNE, I'm hoping by the next April Fool's Day...

 

[kpc]

I predict there won't be a full month in 2021 that some state border won't be closed.

 

[oznflfan]

I predict there won't be a full month in 2021 that some state border won't be closed.

If we are vaccinated by end of October and there are still border closures at Christmas we have serious problems.

 

[oz_mark]

I predict there won't be a full month in 2021 that some state border won't be closed.

I think you're right.

If we are vaccinated by end of October and there are still border closures at Christmas we have serious problems.

I agree, but I think it will be the case.

 

[jb747]

I predict there won't be a full month in 2021 that some state border won't be closed.

Well, WA for a start. I think they like this particular game. I wonder just when the airlines will simply remove WA from their booking lists entirely.

If we are vaccinated by end of October and there are still border closures at Christmas we have serious problems.

Internal passports, and ID cards (issued by your state, not the Feds) anyone? Accosted by the police, demanding your 'papers', as you walk down the street.

Of course it's tin foil hat stuff, but politicians world wide have shown some amazing tendencies lately.

 

[jakeseven7]

If we are vaccinated by end of October and there are still border closures at Christmas we have serious problems.

WA will open when they’ve won their 2025 election lol