Businesses and holidaymakers hit as border permits cause traffic jams and no-shows

"It puts a dampener on what's supposed to be a nice festive season. Especially after the year we've been through.

Before Christmas Day, Murray Regional Tourism chief executive Mark Francis said many accommodation providers had occupancy rates of about 90 per cent going into this week. Mr Francis said operators were fortunate a high proportion of visitors to the Murray region came from other parts of regional Victoria and South Australia.

Motorists reported delays of between one and three hours to pass through the checkpoint, where South Australian biosecurity officers inspect vehicles for fruit and vegetables, and SA Police check permit numbers for those entering the state. Ms Golding estimated about 40 per cent of the traffic queued up on Sunday afternoon were caravans and campervans, and advised anyone making the journey to leave early and allow extra time to travel.

We are a country of whingers, or so it seems from all the abc reporting, yet most people I know support border control, necessary lockdowns, etc.

Absolutely Disgraceful, opening international borders but closing state borders. I seriously hope compensation is available to all who got stuffed around by these incompetent so called leaders

Was worse at the Queensland border, they changed the rules and told no one that had already done a permit... was chaos as people tried to do permits for kids. Also was only staffed by 3 people... we had a 45 Min wait

As a wise man once said, you aren't stuck in traffic, you are the traffic

All because of 5 cases a day. Btw I crossed the Victorian border on Barry way a couple of days ago and there was no one there to check my border pass. Hopeless.

What a way to cripple the economy and send ppl bankrupt. Just imagine what would we do without state governments🤔

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That’s all because of the NSW government incompetence

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