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Just watching Ch 9 News.
The whole of Melbourne is now labelled as a hot spot.
16 new cases at the towers.
the highest no of new cases in Vic recorded today.
The NSW police commissioner Fuller says there are over 50 points of border crossings with NSW.
Anyway all of you have prob caught up with this by now. 
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@cezm wrote:@go-tazz wrote:
Like I said others don't seem to understand how the border towns operate here and that closing the borders
simply doesn't work between NSW and Vic.
But nonetheless itt's happening
As far as residents near border towns go, the South Australian government has a permit system where people apply online and receive a permit to cross the border to attend medical appointments, shopping or take kids to school.
This seems to work smoothly. My sister lives in Victoria, but works in a South Australian town close to the border. She hasn't had any dramas yet and she has been crossing back and forth over the border daily, for many weeks now under the permit scheme. I cant see why N.S.W and Vic border towns should be any different.
If some-one really wants to rort the system, they may well get away with it, but the scheme is probably controlling 98% of the traffic.
@chameleon54 wrote:
@cezm wrote:
-@go-tazz wrote:
Like I said others don't seem to understand how the border towns operate here and that closing the borders
simply doesn't work between NSW and Vic.
But nonetheless itt's happening
As far as residents near border towns go, the South Australian government has a permit system where people apply online and receive a permit to cross the border to attend medical appointments, shopping or take kids to school.
This seems to work smoothly. My sister lives in Victoria, but works in a South Australian town close to the border. She hasn't had any dramas yet and she has been crossing back and forth over the border daily, for many weeks now under thOne suspected case had recently travelled to Melbourne, returning before harsher restrictions were introduced in hotspot suburbs.e permit scheme. I cant see why N.S.W and Vic border towns should be any different.
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The NSW Victoria border is NOTHING like any other border in Aus and what works for your sister wont work the same for that border.
In Albury and Wodonga alone (pop 100,000+) can have over 10,000 people that cross that border 5 days a week for work and health care.
That region now has three cases as one idiot decided to travel from a Melborne hotspot before stricter measured were put into place.
Should've put roadblocks on all the highways leading out from Melbourne as that's where the problem lies.
The country areas all managed any early cases quickly and effectively and showed the city how to best handle it but obviously they aren't smart enough to learn in the city but quick to punish for no reason.
With Yarrawonga (8000 pop) and Mulwala (2000 pop) you'll have more people come from NSW to Vic as most of the shopping,health care,schooling,work is situated ther
Same with Tocumwal/Barooga where most of the same is situated in Cobram (6000) which is in Victoria.
None of those would need a permit because they live in NSW but can come across the border into Vic and mingle with the people that need a permit to travel less than one km to NSW.
These all would have residents move back and forth across the border both or either way daily and many of those would cross over multiple times.
