Away from the busy Albury-Wodonga crossing, life in Howlong on the NSW-Victorian border continues with little change — and a lot of local hospitality.
Ms Hanna, 70, isn't surprised by the officer's reaction to local hospitality.Ms Hanna said traffic was moving freely into Howlong and the border closure had had little effect on most people in town.
"Little regional businesses — they've already had a whack with the fires, they've already had one lockdown. They'll never recover from this," he said.We asked scientists what to do about the Victorian border. They had a surprising answer "Businesses are going to have to go through all that paperwork for their employees and that's just another inconvenience that we don't need at the moment."
Almost an hour's drive west, Paul Bramich and his family soaked up the last couple of days of their holiday at Mulwala, a town known for its eponymous lake which was formed by the damming of the Murray.They left their Hillsdale home in Melbourne's north-western suburbs before Greater Melbourne was returned to Stage 3 restrictions."We're all symptom-free and healthy and now we're going back to Victoria where everyone's in lockdown again.
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