Aviation and tourism aside- More serious problems are starting to rise due to these borders being closed. Farmers expecting a massive haul due to coming out of a drought which they dearly need. Normally contractors from VIC and NSW would venture north to QLD for the harvest and work their way down back to VIC as it starts later further south.Even with VIC border closed NSW faces the same issue due to lack of labor and the machinery required. Then there is our NZ brothers/sisters that come across and earn their seasonal money, we do not have enough shearers in NSW/VIC for the upcoming spring work another serious issue rising, wonder if PETA will get involved in that!
Allan Joyce is 100% correct, there needs to be a national frame work on opening up. It still mind fu$ks me that we are all closed of to each other. We are currently doing 2 flights a day (QantasLink doing even more) to YBNA full loads 372 passengers a day from the supposed hot spot of Sydney, by QLD assumptions Ballina area should be a petri dish of Covid-19, guess one case makes it a hot spot.
Border closures are having much more of an effect to our economy than the grounding of tourism. Unfortunately one premier is making it a political election campaign which I think will stick unless a Liberal government gets elected.