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Sort out the borders, Mr Barr

FOLLOWING last night’s NSW government announcement that ACT residents can travel in NSW, it only makes sense for the ACT to follow suit, says Liberal Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee. 

She is calling on Chief Minister Andrew Barr to align the cross-border travel arrangements for ACT residents with those of regional NSW.

“There has been ongoing frustration and confusion surrounding different travel rules between the ACT and regional NSW,” Ms Lee said.

“Aligning the cross-border travel arrangements for ACT residents with regional NSW will provide much needed certainty that businesses and the community so desperately need.

“I call on the Chief Minister to provide certainty to Canberrans about cross-border travel within our region that will allow the same freedoms as we will see in regional NSW.”

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2 Responses to Sort out the borders, Mr Barr

Palmerston's Masked Lament says: 16 October 2021 at 9:54 am

As soon as the current Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, made his series of pouting assertions during Thursday press conference to end all COVID press conferences, I got up from the couch and starting making popcorn because this was not going to end well … for Barr.

The NSW change just highlighted the lack of consultation but has appeared to have surprised no one but Barr who had another go at proving the world was wrong on Friday’s press call.

So now ACT Health has betrayed him with the latest change and the CHO will no doubt be brushing off her LinkedIn account by this point.

If I was a clever opposition staffer, I would be setting up a lot of very targeted questions for the next two weeks of Estimates. And making more popcorn!

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