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Qantas has suffered a $100 million hit to its first quarter earnings after several states closed their borders in July in response to Victoria’s coronavirus outbreak.
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The agency responsible for enforcing Australia’s international borders is pushing back against growing calls to establish a federal quarantine facility for returning travellers.
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States and territories have been urged to endorse a new definition of coronavirus hotspots as the federal government turns the screws on border closures.
Premier Steven Marshall says he hopes to lift a controversial restriction on the movement of cross-border communities “very soon”, but no changes will be made currently to the controls which have prompted outcry from border communities and prompted regional MPs to demand a more collaborative approach between South Australia and Victoria.
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.
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.
