Queensland border shuts to all residents of NSW, ACT from Saturday

Kate McIlwain
Updated August 5 2020 - 10:15am, first published 9:47am
The operations of Fly Corporate, which runs flights to Melbourne and Brisbane from Shellharbour airport, have been hit hard by the pandemic.
The operations of Fly Corporate, which runs flights to Melbourne and Brisbane from Shellharbour airport, have been hit hard by the pandemic.

Any Illawarra or South Coast residents who were hoping to get away to Queensland in the next few weeks will be forced to cancel their plans, as the northern state announced it will close its border to all of NSW and the ACT from Saturday.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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