Queensland residents of a border town that lost its only supermarket overnight have to quarantine if they travel to the next closest store.
Mungindi, 500km west of Brisbane, straddles the Queensland/New South Wales border and is home to less than 1000 people. On Tuesday night the butcher, supermarket and clothing store were all destroyed by a fire.
Mungindi sits within the Palaszczuk Government’s COVID bubble, but residents who live north of the river aren’t able to travel to the closest town, Moree, without needing to quarantine on return, as Moree is outside the bubble.What’s left of the Muningdi shops. Picture: NSW Rural Fire ServiceMungindi residents living on the northern side of town are unable to travel to the next nearest supermarket in Moree because of border restrictions.
“They were looking forward to a pretty good harvest in that area after a prolonged drought … and now they’ve lost at least four businesses. “The Mungindi community has evolved across the border, we need to streamline and ensure there’s consistency.”
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