Sydney woman denied entry to WA to see dying mother gets exemption | hamishhastie
A Sydney woman who was denied entry to Western Australia to see her dying mother has been granted an exemption and is now in hotel quarantine in Perth.last week she sought an exemption to enter WA after being encouraged by comments from Police Commissioner Chris Dawson that NSW residents could still enter the state if a relative was in palliative care.However, her four attempts to obtain an exemption through the G2G app were rejected minutes after applying.
NSW was declared an ‘extreme’ risk state on August 26, which removed compassionate grounds as an exemption category, virtually shutting off all travel between the states except for politicians.
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