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SYDNEY, Jan 15 — An official petition to Australian lawmakers urging them to exempt international students from border closures has received nearly 3,000 signatures, citing “bad quality” online lessons and lack of schooling for some. The petition, which is backed by social media campaign...
The borders remain open for essential purposes, such as trade and for transporting goods.
2021 is off to a bumpy start, but ABC Radio Melbourne's Libbi Gorr has tips to survive and thrive ThuThursday 14 updated ThuThursday 14 Together we can survive whatever 2021 throws at us. ( Share Print text only The year definitely seems to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. Victorians queued, deli-style, on the first day of the year to get back across into the Victorian–New South Wales border by midnight, accepting two weeks of binge-watching and iso that lay ahead in return for a leave pass home. Others were a little luckier. There were reports of people waiting for hours just to...
By Brian Latham Bloomberg – South Africa’s decision to shut its land borders was preceded by a week of pandemonium as hundreds of thousands of foreigners tried to return to work after the December holidays. Beitbridge, the only legal road crossing between Zimbabwe and South Africa – and southern Africa’s busiest inland border post – was the worst affected. People waited, not always patiently, for as long as four days in lines of traffic that stretched miles from the border gate with delays caused by the need to produce a certificate showing a negative test for Covid-19. Without rest...
Here are the coronavirus border closure rules across all states and territories in Australia MonMonday 11 updated ThuThursday 14 JanJanuary 2021 at 8:22am Whether you're arriving by road, sea or air, each state has coronavirus border rules you need to be aware of. ( Print text only Cancel Since the pandemic began, state border closures have been a moveable feast as COVID-19 outbreaks have heated up and simmered down across the country. Monday saw three local cases recorded in Greater Sydney, while Greater Brisbane's three-day snap lockdown to stop the spread of the UK COVID-19 variant will be...