People from every state except NSW and Victoria will be allowed to travel to WA without needing to quarantine, but will have to have a temperature test at the airport and possibly a COVID-19 test.
WA Premier Mark McGowan flanked by Health Minister Roger Cook and Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson.This would mean the 'hard border' would be dropped with every jurisdiction except NSW and Victoria. "Western Australia's hard border has and will only ever be in place to protect the health of all Western Australians. I cannot stress that enough."
"But this cautious move to a controlled border does not change the strong and stringent measures we have had in place to protect WA, like hotel quarantine for all international arrivals, strong measures at our ports and hotel quarantine for maritime crew, hotel quarantine for international flight crew, and no change to the 14 days of self-quarantine for New South Wales and Victorian arrivals.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Wednesday that WA was "obstinate and unreasonable" for keeping its border closed.
Worried about losing in the high court?
Get rid of state government. This myopic politics is crippling the economy and innovation. State borders are only useful for sport.
Haha
Here we come
Good to hear, manage it not avoid it..
Interesting the LNP opposition in WA pushes for travel bubbles with different states; the NZ bubble debacle shows that this approach is effectively unenforceable. You open up or not
About time. The hard border was excessive.
Clive will be happy now.
So even though I live somewhere that has had no cases for week, I still can’t visit my family because I am in Victoria
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