Given the Covid border restrictions between NSW Greater Sydney and QLD what if anything prevents someone from driving to Alice Springs from Sydney and then entering QLD via the NT. I assume no border pass would be required? Is there any issue with this approach especially if you are taking a relaxing drive through SA and NT on your way to QLD?
Traveling to QLD via Northern Territory
fortune500 on 30/10/2020 - 16:27
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thanks. But are there even checkpoints between the NT and QLD?
Just because there are no checkpoints doesn't mean it's not illegal.
It's not hard to get a border pass and lie. There have been several breaches where people came into QLD from VIC through ACT/NSW that were not stopped until they were found to have Covid a week or so later. They had border passes or came through the airport. I'm sure there have been others that got through that were not infected.
However be aware that if you lie and get caught, I doubt there will be any sympathy for you and judging on how they are dealing with it there are big fines.
Yes there are.
And anytime your pulled up you need to prove your where abouts in the last few weeks… # plate is usually a good cop magnet.
You don't need to go via NT. Can go via anywhere in NSW outside the 32 local governments in Greater Sydney.
Or go via SA or ACT, or even TAS.
You'll still need to fill in one of the declaration forms, but you won't have to quarantine.
Police may want receipts (e.g. fuel, food) to show where you have been travelling.
Isn't it great living in a free country?!
A country greatly free of covid? Yeah it is!
The HitchHikers guide lists covid19 as 'mostly harmless'. Which is what the CDC and literally thousands of doctors and scientists say too. If we can't trust Douglas Adams who can we trust? The WHO?
As long as you take 14 days to get from Sydney to Queensland, there's no problem.
Otherwise, it's the same as just lying on your border pass and saying you haven't been in Sydney for the past 14 days.