A person who flew from Victoria to Tasmania without an exemption will spend the night in a quarantine hotel before being sent back to Melbourne on 'the next available flight', police say.
For Mr Dare, who moved to Geelong about two years ago, the announcement was "a hard pill to swallow" as his father is living with motor neurone disease .
He said he understood why the stricter border restrictions were put in place, but that it did not make it any easier. "I was talking to her [Hannah] the other day and it was a pretty teary moment when I told her that I missed her very much, and she told me that she missed me just as much."He said he was also worried his father's condition may deteriorate further.
Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein announced today that he would be extending the state of emergency until the end of August.
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