After almost 150 days, Queenslanders are coming home.
At the Coolangatta border checkpoint, shortly after midnight, a policewoman says to the wrung-out Queenslanders pointing their phones out the passenger side window: “Welcome home.”
“Half of Brisbane’s here, seriously,” says Rob Jones, serving out the final hours and minutes of the months-long lockout in a Wharf Street carpark-turned-camp ground. He wants to see his new grandson. After all these months, all this hardship, with the border literally around the Wharf Street corner, was it all going to fall apart because of a form?
The 30-year-old project manager, who is trying to get to the Gold Coast, is here to ask police if it is indeed a pre-1am go time, but is instead tending to her fellow travellers.
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