“Closing” a testing station in Melbourne doesn’t mean it’s closed all day, it means it’s unsafe to accept more people due to safety reasons ( like cars blocking roads, excessive wait times). These stations are usually re opened a few hours later and continue through the day.
the media gets everyone in a frenzy to get to a station at 5 am before they open at 9, if people got to these so called “closed” testing stations at 5 in the afternoon it’s a 15-20 minute wait, but that’s not newsworthy...from personal experience.
not sticking up for the Vic gov at all, just as is often the case in our industry, the media are selective how they report.