Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has shut Greater Brisbane down for three days to give the state’s contact tracers time to track down and isolate close contacts of seven locally infected residents.
This action alone should have appeased state premiers. Yet the governments of Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania have imposed ‘hard borders’ with Brisbane, requiring all arrivals to isolate for 14 days.
So, with Easter School holidays fast approaching, thousands of Australians once again risk having their travel plans wrecked, or being thrown into isolation, because of trigger-happy state premiers (NSW’s Gladys Berejiklian is the notable exception).
