Students at Queensland boarding schools will be able to travel home to New South Wales for the upcoming holidays — but will have to do 14 days quarantine when they return. Follow live.
NSW Deputy Premier confident parts of Northern NSW will leave lockdown in coming daysNew South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro says he is confident the North Coast and Northern Rivers will come out of lockdown this weekend.
Crisis cabinet meets today to consider health advice on which regional areas can have restrictions eased."So the reality of the decision needs to be made on data that is front of you and for the northern part of the state, there is a genuine argument because it is not just an LGA - you can actually broaden it out to 30-plus LGAs that make up that region where there have been no cases.
"I would be confident, tell you what, if we couldn't get that up for the northern part of the state … no-one else will be getting up."
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