News
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is urging other state leaders not to introduce border restrictions on her state in response to the latest community transmission of COVID-19, saying it would be an “overreaction”.
News
Australians are free to travel across all interstate borders without undergoing quarantine for the first time since the coronavirus arrived – but flare-ups and in Queensland and NSW could see border restrictions return soon.
Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news sent straight to your inbox every workday at lunchtime.
Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter.
Leading today’s breaking news from South Australia, the nation and abroad: one person is dead after a truck ran into another truck stopped in a long queue just outside Bordertown overnight, soon after SA’s move to bar access to arrivals from greater Melbourne prompted a dash to cross the border before midnight.
State border shutdowns are inconsistent, confusing and counter-productive, argues epidemiologist Catherine Bennett. The chaos of Victoria’s New Year closure to NSW shows there must be a better way.
Premier Steven Marshall says the state’s emergency powers “don’t lend themselves particularly well to a pandemic” but says it’s unlikely the current state of emergency will be rescinded while border closures remain a regular feature of South Australian life.
South Australian authorities have moved to clarify rules for people arriving from Sydney as new COVID-19 restrictions come into force after confusion at Adelaide Airport and at border checkpoints, prompting an apology from Police Commissioner and state coordinator Grant Stevens.
News
News
News
News
