Tasmania is set to ease its border restrictions at the end of the month, but there are growing calls for the island state to be off limit to its neighbours across Bass Strait.
"It's going to get worse in Victoria and it feels like it would be the wrong thing to do to open up.
Cathy Robustelli, who runs a food catering business in Hobart, said she was looking forward to the borders reopening."There's going to be a mass exodus to Queensland shortly so we can get some warm weather." With access to the mountain closed for a few months, she was forced to shut shop. Now she's reopened but the tourists are yet to return.
While she's not keen to see the borders opened to Victoria, Ms Spillane said tourists made up about 80 per cent of her trade and she was hanging out for July 24.'Difficult' to open borders to Victoria
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