Western Australia's peak tourism body wants all interstate arrivals into the state to be vaccinated from December 1 to help provide certainty around travel arrangements.Being vaccinated could become a condition of booking hotels and toursThe Tourism Council WA said mandatory vaccinations should be introduced for everyone entering WA, including business travellers, FIFO workers and returning West Australians, as well as tourists.
But the idea was rejected by WA Premier Mark McGowan in the short term, who said it was "certainly" not something that would happen now.Premier Mark McGowan said allowing people to enter WA if they were vaccinated was not currently feasible. "We're very open to discussions with the government about how to do this and we think it's going to be part of ongoing border arrangements, more or less a vaccination passport, testing on arrival and quarantining if necessary," Mr Hall said.
"For more than 18 months, businesses have been running down their cash to stay open so at the end of the day, they're simply running out of cash to keep going."Margaret River Busselton Tourism Association chief executive Sharna Kearney said businesses would welcome anything that would allow interstate travel again.
Well the ‘punch a nazi’ and ‘fight facism’ lefties sure transitioned to asking for papers seamlessly AustraliaHasFallen
Frustrating and painful that healthgovau authority opening borders for tourists but not for Internatiinal_Srudents who are awaiting for last 2 years now.
I'm fully vaccinated but WA won't have any tourists from interstate the way their premier MarkMcGowanMP is carrying on. MargaretRiver kununurraresort kimberleywild westwindsgin do you agree with your Premiers harsh actions and lack of support towards the eastern states?
Makes no difference - who wants to go to there anyway?
Tourism during the pandemic.
Western Australia has possibly the safest borders in the world, why wouldn't we take full advantage of that fact? I stand with Mark McGowan.
can we stop the meth/ice coming the other way, deal?
Good luck with that! Section 117 of the Constitution of Australia provides protection against discrimination on the basis of State of residence.
It's pretty clear WA A. Doesn't want Covid and B. Doesn't really consider themselves part of Australia anyway.
The Crazy Leftie states won't let it happen to after the federal election.
Perhaps WA should focus on not being last in the national vaccination race, first. Annoys me that on one hand they’re so desperate for zero covid, but on the other hand they’re the slowest in the country at getting vaccinated.
Let’s just make it mandatory period
This will go to court.
Isn't that basically what the Reverend Morrison is saying?
Tasmania too, please!
2 or 3 jabs? The 3rd will fix the illegal border issues