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April 23, 2020 05: 01:25
When Kelly Ostwald drives from her house in Queensland down the roadway to the farm workshed, it’s an interstate journey.
Bottom line:
- The Queensland-NSW border is closed to avoid the spread of coronavirus
- In some rural border neighborhoods, it has actually become hard to travel for work, supplies and treatment
- One region is trialling a phone app to make it possible for some residents to surpass obstructions, with hopes the system might be presented somewhere else
However after the state border closed a month ago, that short journey suddenly became an 80- kilometre drive via a police-patrolled crossing at Texas, further east.
In little border towns and farming neighborhoods, numerous homeowners now deal with additional hours of travel to get to the shops, go to work or make medical consultations.
Ms Ostwald supports measures to contain coronavirus