Surf coast businesses can't catch a break as border hotspot now a 'ghost town'
Just a street away, Darren Stott, the relief manager at Columbia Apartments on Rainbow Bay, echoed similar sentiments, with the business having lost at least 70 per cent of its customers.
He said the handful of customers his business had managed to keep were those locked out of their own states. Coolangatta hairdresser Jessika Elliston, who works at a salon which sits directly on the border — the back of the salon is considered to be in New South Wales and the front in Queensland — said the confusion over rules was adding to the area's anguish.
A Coolangatta hairdresser stays positive during the pandemic, despite suffering a major loss in customers.
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