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Most weeks, cancer patients in Renmark can drive the hour and a half across the Victorian border to Mildura’s local hospital for lifesaving treatment.
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Queensland will turn Victorians away at the border rather than give them the option to go into quarantine at their own expense, as the southern state is increasingly shut off from the rest of the nation due to rising coronavirus numbers.
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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has shrugged off South Australia’s refusal to lift its eastern border restrictions before next month’s school holiday period, saying, “Why would you want to go there?”
UPDATED | South Australia will open its borders to arrivals from Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory from midnight – but none of those jurisdictions are reciprocating – while coronavirus restrictions will be further relaxed on public gatherings and some fitness classes after a meeting of state authorities this morning.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ramped up calls for state leaders to set a border opening timetable, with coronavirus infections at low levels.
UPDATED | Premier Steven Marshall denies it was a mistake to grant a compassionate exemption for a British woman who later tested positive to coronavirus to enter South Australia, insisting “the system has worked”.
