Police escorts, long waits: My epic effort crossing two state borders

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When I accepted a job in Alice Springs in late July, I knew moving from Victoria wasn't going to be straight forward... TravellerAU

A few days before, South Australia had banned Victorians from transiting through the state, and Queenslanders didn't want us either. Driving was off the cards; I would have to fly.

After we alight in Sydney at about 5.30pm, we're met by police directing us through the International Terminal – more space to triage people, I assume. We wend our way in socially-distanced lines through empty customs checkpoints, and slowly down into the huge baggage carousel area. There, we are temperature-checked by people who seem to be health staff in full PPE, and asked what we're doing in Sydney.

After an hour or so, we're told to get our bags and police escort us to three buses where army officers load our cargo onto the first one. We wait on the bus for another hour. More people board another bus. Finally, we're off. At 12.30am I startle awake to loud knocking on the door. I'm a heavy sleeper. I groggily get up at another booming knock. A voice yelling"POLICE" thunders.I open the door, and two police officers say they need to see my passport and need me to fill out a form. The form asks for the same details I already gave twice: to the staff at the airport and the police officer in the hotel lobby. These new officers say it's for a different system.

 

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