Visitors from Sydney will be shut out of Queensland until at least February, with authorities also "very concerned" about cases of COVID-19 in Victoria.
Ms Palaszczuk also urged Queenslanders thinking about travelling to New South Wales and Victoria to reconsider.Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said there needed to be 28 days of no unlinked cases for the borders to greater Sydney to reopen."They often then find the linkage, so there has been quite a few over the last week."
Mr Gschwind said interstate travel was worth $10 billion a year to Queensland, with about 40 per cent from NSW, and a large slice of that from Sydney. "Because we do want to make every effort to prevent wholesale border closures which have been so costly for our industry and the economy generally, and the community."However, Mr Gschwind said it was a relief the border ban was not extended to the rest of NSW.
"Today's decision will impact our summer tourism numbers but at the same time, it is pleasing to see we are not in a hard lockdown border situation as that would be devastating for hundreds of thousands of travellers, and our economy."
Back to Bondi
'damn filthy foreigners' er, um 'fellow Australians'
QLD now has the UK variant and Brisbane is going into lockdown. Why on earth would anyone want to go there