Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has urged the NSW government to stop “their constant criticism” of his state’s border closure because it’s “getting tiresome”.
It comes as Ms Berejiklian on Tuesday lashed out at other state leaders for their stance on borders and for essentially ignoring national hotspot advice.
“The National Health experts, of which all the state medical officers are part of, there is no place in Australia that's deemed a hotspot,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“So, if there’s no place in Australia that is deemed a hotspot, why do we even have these border closures and these border restrictions?"
Mr McGowan said the state's border closure was designed to "protect the people" of Western Australia.
“Their attempts to bring down the health measures that have worked, in states like Western Australia, we will fight," he said.
“They need to just leave it alone, let us act in the best interest in the health of West
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has promised better transparency after it was not disclosed that four Covid-19 cases were linked to the highly-contagious British strain.
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has announced one new case in the state on Tuesday.
The new COVID-19 case is a Queensland resident who had flown into the country from overseas and was currently isolating in hotel quarantine.
The state has established a hard border to New South Wales and Queensland, and a soft border to Victoria.
Mr McGowan said the blaze remained unpredictable with fire crews battling hot and windy conditions. It s currently contained but we don t know what will happen, he told reporters on Sunday.
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan.
AAP We have a large amount of resources devoted to dealing with the issue. Can I just urge everyone across the community to listen to the advice and I also urge people not to go and have a look. That is disruptive and it puts you in danger, so please don t go and stickybeak.
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The fire has closed a number of roads in the area, including the Kwinana Freeway between Mortimer and Rowley roads.
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NSW Health is urgently tracing residents who stayed at a Brisbane hotel that is being evacuated by the Queensland government after six cases of a highly contagious strain of coronavirus were traced back to the site.
A public health alert has been issued for anyone who has been at the Hotel Grand Chancellor since December 30 with Queensland informing NSW Health that there were NSW people staying at the hotel who have since returned to NSW .
The Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane s CBD.
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The hotel is believed to have been used for returned overseas travellers only and NSW Health said it was working with its Queensland counterparts to identify anyone from NSW who had been at the Brisbane CBD hotel.