A group of six Victorians has been fined more than $24,000 after lying on border declaration forms while trying to enter Queensland on Saturday.
Police said the group was attempting to cross the border in a minivan and told officers they had been working in New South Wales for the past three weeks. But evidence uncovered on their phones showed the group had in fact been in a coronavirus hotspot in Victoria in past fortnight.Police said the group had made an earlier attempt to enter Queensland on July 2 but were turned back."We saw some people trying to get in, in a van, it's not on."So those young people now have hefty fines they now have to pay."
Queensland's borders remain closed to Victorians and people from interstate who have travelled to Victoria in the past fortnight.
And Star Casino is fined $5000
Victorians are the worst kind of people
The only decent thing Queensland has ever done for Australia.
Should be 50k fine and crim record
That's the price you pay for blatant selfish disregard for human safety.
NSW with it's open borders for so long is to blame for this. Qld could have easily gone down the same path.
To all Victorians WHY travel to NSW or QLD stuff them! they're treating you with total political disgust and 2nd rate citizens Support your own business's and your own State, they desperately need your money too You already have the best holidaying destinations in Australia
Why can't people follow the rules
Shouldn't these people now be tested in NSW? Fines may not be enough if having travelled from Melb hot spot... GladysB BradHazzard billbowtell
Money making scheme or rather systematically 'legalised' extortion scheme. UNBELIEVABLE. First destroy people's livelihoods for NOTHING and now steal from the same people that were victimised brutally.
Plenty more money where that came from. ☺️
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they won't pay them...
People just don’t get it do they!?! This isn’t a bloody game for you to try and cheat at, these are lives on the line. Stop being so stupid!
How did the police get info from their phones? The covid app?
What happened to StayHomeStaySafe ?
How did they get into NSW?
Hearing about the death of a toddler/baby in a house fire this morning was far more heart wrenching than reading about the rage over someone being fined for being caught out blatantly lying.
Queenslanders die from crime at a greater rate than covid deaths in Victoria.
We need to set up Victorian traps. I'm thinking like a bear trap baited with things like pumpkin spice latte, beard wax, etc.
Not to smart when your wonderous smart phone exposes your lies. Sincerely hope these huge fines will have a deterrent factor.
Yep. I personally know someone who lives right in the center of Melbourne who had every intention of getting out but just couldn't get organised in time. People who did manage to get out even though they were told to stay are a massive part of the problem.
Sucked in to them
As a Victorian I only have one thing to say:
It’s a stupidity tax. The more people get fined, the more it will help the government recover financially from the Coronavirus.
Name and shame.
one van of people - not a plethora of people trying to break the rules!
Good job !!!!
I want to go on holiday to QLD but I can’t because I am a stinky Victorian. I am diseased and stink of Italian cheese and Greek souvlaki.
This whole thing is beyond a joke. More people have died in road accidents this year than coronavirus and we don’t stop people from driving
What is wrong with these people ? When the going gets tough they run & hide ? Cant amuse themselves for 6 weeks ? Selfish
What a joke, if they are not sick, why can’t they travel.
Good.
Well fair enough lockdown mean lockdown PreetSid89
How much of a fine do politicians getting for lying about foundations, backhanders oh that’s right it’s treason
I reckon no Australia-Chinese will do this stupid action of escaping Victoria to enter Queensland because that they are afraid of being fined
So how did they get to drive around NSW. Did the Police contact the NSW Police and hand them over? Theses people should detained and locked away for their 14 day holiday.
Given this is a deliberate act, we should start charging people with assault with INTENT. If a death should occur & be linked to these f***wits, make it murder. F*** 'em!
Good.
Arseholes
there are victorians that have been up here in North Queensland for weeks now boasting how they have sneaked in through the bush tracks
Any Australian not following social guidelines and deliberately traveling should be locked up for two weeks at their cost in a hotel for our good. No need for fines just cost of isolation and containment
Good ! Get ‘em where it hurts ... their pocketbook !!!!!
They won’t pay.
Sad .. it is people like this and the families doing the wrong thing that are spreading the virus from hot spots. We were always going to get hot spots but due to this type of action instead of controlling the spread we all suffer. They should be locked up
Good
So now they’re roaming around NSW
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