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Interstate travel will be crucial to AU economic recovery
It is still not clear when the Blues and the Maroons will face off in the State of Origin rugby league series this year but the interstate rivalry has already accelerated over the issue of Queensland’s travel bans during the coronavirus. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk probably had some justification for pulling up the drawbridge two months ago when she blocked cross-border travel on March 24 because the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading much faster in the southern states. The Ruby Princess had just docked in Sydney a few days earlier, and around that time NSW recorded 211 new cases in a single day. It was ... (full story)