Lockdown has become luxury for the 400 AFL staff, executives and families controversially given permission to dodge the strict Queensland border lockdown. 9News
Cancer patient Tracie Miller, who lives in Moree in north-west NSW, said she hadn't been treated with the same open arms after having had a breast removed."That is like saying sports are okay, but the people who are in need of medical help don't have an option at all," she said.
Ms Miller said she applied for a border exemption on August 12 so she could cross into Queensland to see her surgeon in Toowoomba on August 17.The exemption was granted – eight days after her appointment, on August 25.She's now been cleared to travel, but the rules for entry are brutal. Ms Miller has to be there and back in 24 hours, with no stops for fuel or the bathroom, and her husband isn't allowed into the doctor's appointment.And despite the border opening for the AFL dignitaries, Queensland will keep its border to NSW closed.The Queensland government has said it will only be opened after NSW sustains 28 days without a coronavirus case with an unknown source.
Ms Berejiklian said she believed the Queensland government's position would change at the end of October – following the state election.
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