Stuck in Adelaide wanting to get home to Sunshine Coast Qld.
Cnewc said
10:18 PM Sep 3, 2021
Hi Fellow travellers. I am a solo traveller. Left home (Tewantin, Sunshine Coast) in November 2019 and headed to Tasmania for 4 months. Then Covid hit and with initial lockdown and then Victorias second outbreak with shut borders, spent nearly a year in Tassie - loved it. Left Nov 2020 and headed along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide to spend Xmas with my daughter. Travelled around SA, using my daughters unit in Adelaide as a base. Left end of April to head to Darwin up the centre and got as far as Port Augusta and fell Ill and was flown back to Adelaide. All good. I flew back to Qld to visit son and grandkids - got stuck there for an extra2 weeks (5 in all) with lockdowns. Managed to get back to Adelaide and my Ute and van, spending 2 weeks in home quarantine at the unit - daughter elsewhere. My intention was to pack up and head across NSW and home by the end of September when my house becomes vacant. Originally, I wanted to head to ACT to have a look around but all that is up the tube With Covid. Ok, so after all that introduction, any idea best way to make it home. I would ideally like to travel across NSW via Broken Hill, trying to keep North, cross the border maybe at Tweed heads or within 24hrs (or less driving distance from Tewantin and do 2 weeks home quarantine. If not home quarantine (and that doesnt look at all likely), then hotel but it appears you can only apply for a border pass three days before and I would already be in NSW at that time. Also, would I be able to transit across NSW. I am self sufficient so could avoid people except for fuel etc. Dont know, Im totally confused. I have to leave as my daughters lease is up on 22 Sept. Can anyone enlighten me please. Thanks so much for your time and reading my long ramble - NEWCY
-- Edited by Cnewc on Friday 3rd of September 2021 10:20:58 PM
montie said
10:48 PM Sep 3, 2021
Cnewc wrote:
Hi Fellow travellers. I am a solo traveller. Left home (Tewantin, Sunshine Coast) in November 2019 and headed to Tasmania for 4 months. Then Covid hit and with initial lockdown and then Victorias second outbreak with shut borders, spent nearly a year in Tassie - loved it. Left Nov 2020 and headed along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide to spend Xmas with my daughter. Travelled around SA, using my daughters unit in Adelaide as a base. Left end of April to head to Darwin up the centre and got as far as Port Augusta and fell Ill and was flown back to Adelaide. All good. I flew back to Qld to visit son and grandkids - got stuck there for an extra2 weeks (5 in all) with lockdowns. Managed to get back to Adelaide and my Ute and van, spending 2 weeks in home quarantine at the unit - daughter elsewhere. My intention was to pack up and head across NSW and home by the end of September when my house becomes vacant. Originally, I wanted to head to ACT to have a look around but all that is up the tube With Covid. Ok, so after all that introduction, any idea best way to make it home. I would ideally like to travel across NSW via Broken Hill, trying to keep North, cross the border maybe at Tweed heads or within 24hrs (or less driving distance from Tewantin and do 2 weeks home quarantine. If not home quarantine (and that doesnt look at all likely), then hotel but it appears you can only apply for a border pass three days before and I would already be in NSW at that time. Also, would I be able to transit across NSW. I am self sufficient so could avoid people except for fuel etc. Dont know, Im totally confused. I have to leave as my daughters lease is up on 22 Sept. Can anyone enlighten me please. Thanks so much for your time and reading my long ramble - NEWCY
-- Edited by Cnewc on Friday 3rd of September 2021 10:20:58 PM
Are you fully vaccinated?
EJP said
11:22 PM Sep 3, 2021
Once you enter NSW you will find it near to impossible to leave for another state, including back to SA, vaccinated or not. Even the most compassionate cases are being refused from NSW to anywhere. You may get into Qld from the Northern Territory but check the respective state government covid websites first. It is a long drive. The other alternative is to become a celebrity or play football.
DeBe said
11:25 PM Sep 3, 2021
Some freinds here in SA recently traveled through NT to get to QLD, then back the same way with no problems. It is longer but there was no problems.
Cnewc said
12:03 AM Sep 4, 2021
Thanks for the replies. Yes I am fully vaccinated. I have been looking at travelling via NT 4,500k via Tenant creek. Had a look at going on the Plenty Highway which is just north of Alice and through Boulia to Winton. Shorter but gravel all the way and says the most isolated road in Australia. Not sure that is a good idea for a single traveller though, especially female. Wonder if anyone else is going through - do a tag along.
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 12:13:23 AM
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 12:15:27 AM
Mike Harding said
04:28 AM Sep 4, 2021
Victoria allows Vic residents who are in Qld to cross NSW in a 24 hour window in order to return home, it would be worth checking to see if Qld offers similar to Qld residents in other states.
I don't think you need worry about isolation on the Plenty Highway, it is a well used road, comparatively.
The Belmont Bear said
09:24 AM Sep 4, 2021
Good on big hearted Dan for letting returning Victorian residents cross NSW - unfortunately we dont want you here as you will be just as much risk of transporting the virus from town to town as anyone else regardless of the number plate you may have on your car...Go through the NT Cnewc you could save yourself the hassle of having to plead your case with the border guards.
"Even the most compassionate cases from NSW are being refused" - what a wonderful country we live in when a state premier has the power to stop a 3 year old from being reunited with their family, or to prevent a fully vaccinated health worker from returning home to visit her dying father then turns around and OKs the families of NRL teams from Sydney to go there.
BB
Peter_n_Margaret said
09:34 AM Sep 4, 2021
We have just driven from Brisbane to Adelaide.
We were towing a trailer full of "delicate" stuff, so wanted to stay on the bitumen, so the only option was via Mt Isa and Alice Springs, 4,500km.
Just need to complete the border crossing applications along the way.
Cheers,
Peter
watsea said
10:31 AM Sep 4, 2021
Plenty of news reports that QLD has strong restrictions about entering QLD from NSW. I do not like your chances.
Via NT into QLD is likely to be possible, though a longer route.
Evidently you are a QLD resident, so it may possible to go through the exemption process to pass through the NSW/QLD border. You would need to check. You may have to quarantine if coming through NSW. Again, you need to check.
PeterInSa said
11:04 AM Sep 4, 2021
Re (Good on big hearted Dan for letting returning Victorian residents cross NSW - unfortunately we dont want you here as you will be just as much risk of transporting the virus from town to town as anyone else regardless of the number plate you may have on your car)
Could be the reason for some of the Non Locally Acquired Covid cases in Vic.
Cnewc said
11:08 AM Sep 4, 2021
Hi Peter - Guru
thanks so much for that. I have decided to take that route home. A bit late in the season I know as far as heat and wet is concerned. How did you find distances between fuel stops and accomodation. I usually free camp but not game due to the isolation of the route. Any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated.
Carol
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 11:24:29 AM
Cnewc said
11:12 AM Sep 4, 2021
So true. Thanks
Cnewc said
11:16 AM Sep 4, 2021
Thanks BB. You are right. Ill head North. Carol
Cnewc said
11:18 AM Sep 4, 2021
Thanks for the advice EJB. Appreciated
Cnewc said
11:19 AM Sep 4, 2021
Thank you Mike
Inland_Sailor said
04:37 PM Sep 4, 2021
This set of circumstances, and plenty of others, highlight the urgent need for the current sealing of the Strzelecki track to be prioritised by the Feds. At the current rate of sealing, 50km per year and with 450km remaining to be done, ie 9 years, it needs to be declared a National Road and at the very least, double that rate of progress.
Cnewc said
07:23 PM Sep 4, 2021
That would be awesome
wombat50 said
08:21 PM Sep 4, 2021
Hi Cnewc, 4 of us, 2 couples are currently in Port Augusta, and will be leaving on Monday to go north through Alice then to Tennant creek and crossing into QLD from there and going down to Brisbane. A hell of a detour. AFAIK there are no restrictions on getting into QLD that way. we are making a couple of stops at Cober Pedy, Ayers rock and Alice Springs.
Rob Driver said
08:33 PM Sep 4, 2021
Inland_Sailor wrote:
This set of circumstances, and plenty of others, highlight the urgent need for the current sealing of the Strzelecki track to be prioritised by the Feds. At the current rate of sealing, 50km per year and with 450km remaining to be done, ie 9 years, it needs to be declared a National Road and at the very least, double that rate of progress.
I totally agree I S.
The cost to transport over the years by not having a more direct sealed road route into central western Qld has been astronomical, let alone the benefits for tourism.
Unfortunately there are very few votes for any Federal or State Govt in developing a route to accomodate more direct travel to Qld and vica verca.
We should all hold our govt representatives to task over the improvement of some of these more direct transport routes which would take pressure off of the other roads which at times are completely unsafe for general travel due to traffic volume.
The Belmont Bear said
10:03 PM Sep 4, 2021
In 2019 we were staying in our van in Broken Hill intending to head down the Silver City Hwy to Victoria, on the night before leaving we heard on the news that the highway had been closed due to some structural problem with a bridge. We decided to do a fairly lengthy detour and go through the SA Riverland and back to Mildura that way. We ended up spending a few days in Morgan, visited some great vineyards and explored an area that we had never intended on going to. Sometimes what seems like a setback can turn out to be an opportunity we were glad that we decided to go that way or we would have missed a great part of the country. I guess its different if you are in a hurry but most of the time we aren't - IMHO the time you spend bypassing NSW Cnewc might be a bit more interesting (and cheaper) than sitting quarantined in a room for 14 days after you get there.
BB
Peter_n_Margaret said
10:24 PM Sep 4, 2021
Cnewc wrote:
Hi Peter - Guru
thanks so much for that. I have decided to take that route home. A bit late in the season I know as far as heat and wet is concerned. How did you find distances between fuel stops and accomodation. I usually free camp but not game due to the isolation of the route. Any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated.
We only refuelled at Mt Isa and Alice as we carry lots of fuel, but there is no problem for most people and there were lots of Vic and SA registered caravans on the route.
We also only free camp and I wold see no problem doing that. The more isolated, the better.
Cheers,
Peter
Whenarewethere said
10:53 PM Sep 4, 2021
We only free camped on the routes from Sydney, Bourke, Mt Isa, Tennant Creek in 2018 & in 2019 down the Stuart Highway from Great Central Road until we turned off at the Oodnadatta Track. No issues whatsoever with free camping along the sealed road. We have enough fuel for over 1200km on sealed roads without headwind.
We get going in the morning by driving a bit first then have breakfast. We find it gets us going quicker than having breakfast first. By default you then get a break driving.
Then start looking 2 hours before it starts to get dark. If you stop early so be it.
Cnewc said
09:28 AM Sep 5, 2021
Hi Wombat50
I am on Kangaroo Island at the mo visiting my daughter and only made the decision to go north yesterday, on the exact route youre doing. I head back to Adelaide tomorrow and will need to get my Ute serviced and a few other preparations and hopefully leave before the weekend - about a week behind you. The comments on this forum encouraged me to bite the bullet. It would be lovely if you kept in touch privately perhaps with tips and learnings as you go along Ahead of me. Thanks so much to everyone.
Liamray said
09:54 AM Sep 5, 2021
I wonder why our EVER SO CONCERNED PM, PREMIERS AND CMOs werent out Closing Borders and Issuing Travel Permits in 2019, when more than 310,000 were DIAGNOSED WITH INFLUENZA during the Flu Season (March - October 8 months) and 913 Australians Died from the INFLUENZA VIRUS? But here we are 2yrs later with a Virus that in 2020 Infected just 28,100 and was a Factor in the Deaths of 910! And this year 2021, after 8mths we have around the same number of cases, but with a massive reduction in Deaths, down to just 120! It looks to me that the News that says that this New Variant although more contagious, is less Deadly. And the figures certainly seem to quantify that ascension. What has happened that has led to us becoming a society of DEATH & ILLNESS DENIERS? Over 450+ Australians DIE EVERY SINGLE DAY from Preventable Diseases & Accidents, where is our Governments response to those Deaths? Why CANCER alone takes 50+ lives a day in Australia, and a further 150+ Australians a day are Diagnosed with CANCER! Where are the Daily Updates on these DEATHS and NEW CASES? According to the CANCER COUNCIL of Australia, almost 1 in 2 Australians over 70 will die from Cancer, where is the OUTCRY FOR THESE POOR SOULS? But when 1,000 Australians with a median age of 82 (who all had COMORBIDITIES!) die from a Virus that strangely has all the same symptoms as the Flu, the Government Mobilise the Army and turn our Police Force into the Gestapo! And with the grand Total of just 3 Australians under the age of 20 who have died WITH the Virus, thats 3 under 20s in a YEAR AND A HALF, the Government are now turning their attack on them. I am not an ANTIVAXXER! If you want to have the Vaccine then by all means have it I would never try to tell anyone not to have it, but the same token those who wish to be vaccinated should extend the same courtesy to those who do not wish to have the vaccine. And if the VACCINE works? What do you have to fear from anyone who is not Vaccinated? The latest news out of Israel, they have the Highest Number of Vaccinated population in the world, they are now experiencing a huge increase in Cases and over 70% of those new cases are those who have been Fully Vaccinated! Im surprised that people on this site seem to be buying into the hysteria created by the Government and the Media, after all we are all from generations that went through much worse situations than this, and we have all known and seen death in our lifetimes, and we all know that death is a part of life. My mother went through the Spanish Flu, that WAS a Pandemic, with a population of just 5 Millionover 35,000 Australians lost their lives and over 3 Million Australians were infected (thats 3 in every 5 Australians)! Now that was something to PANIC ABOUT! But this Virus has not yet ECLIPSED ANY FLU SEASON INFECTIONS OR DEATHS, and those INFLUENZA VIRUS DEATHS & CASES happen every year!
-- Edited by Liamray on Sunday 5th of September 2021 09:55:56 AM
Peter_n_Margaret said
11:19 AM Sep 5, 2021
What a rant. And if the VACCINE works? What do you have to fear from anyone who is not Vaccinated?
Am I expected to pay for your hospital costs, cos you won't be?
But this Virus has not yet ECLIPSED ANY FLU SEASON INFECTIONS OR DEATHS,
Thanks to the great job that has been done and to those who have done their bit (excluding you, by the sounds of it).
Just look at the death rate in the USA. Is that what you aspire to for this country.
Cheers,
Peter
EJP said
11:38 AM Sep 5, 2021
Liamray, you obviously have no idea what is going on in the world regarding this virus, or the restrictions imposed by our state governments to contain it. We might not all agree with way they are going about it but they have helped in containing this virus. I think it is glaringly obvious that, with this new Delta strain, vaccinations are the only way out. Anyone who is not vaccinated may find themselves in a world of pain.
Long Weekend said
11:50 AM Sep 5, 2021
Boy Liamray, you sure know how to veer off topic!
However, I feel that you should have put your posting in the jokes section.
Murray
Warren-Pat_01 said
11:40 PM Sep 5, 2021
G'day newsy,
Without trying to be over cynical, Anna & Jeanette will let you into QLD if you're a football team, a film star or have plenty of money that you'll spend in Qld! Otherwise it's almost impossible to "come home". We'd like to see our families, getting there is no problem, coming back is!
There have been a couple of sneaky characters who have found other ways of getting back without detection but they had kids who skited a little too loudly to their school mates & have been hit with some "extra travel expenses"! Personally I agree with the extra fines as these people can put communities at risk.
Whenarewethere said
12:10 AM Sep 6, 2021
The kids have done their dash on birthday & Christmas presents for the decade!
Dougwe said
07:35 AM Sep 6, 2021
Long Weekend wrote:
Boy Liamray, you sure know how to veer off topic!
However, I feel that you should have put your posting in the jokes section.
Murray
Lucky you can read it, Murray. I can't read things like that and without paragraphs and I have been to 'Specsavers' not that long ago. I tend to put heaps of paragraphs in even more than likely would fail an English test but we all aren't at school now so doesn't matter, just makes it easier to read IMO.
Hi Fellow travellers. I am a solo traveller. Left home (Tewantin, Sunshine Coast) in November 2019 and headed to Tasmania for 4 months. Then Covid hit and with initial lockdown and then Victorias second outbreak with shut borders, spent nearly a year in Tassie - loved it. Left Nov 2020 and headed along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide to spend Xmas with my daughter. Travelled around SA, using my daughters unit in Adelaide as a base. Left end of April to head to Darwin up the centre and got as far as Port Augusta and fell Ill and was flown back to Adelaide. All good. I flew back to Qld to visit son and grandkids - got stuck there for an extra2 weeks (5 in all) with lockdowns. Managed to get back to Adelaide and my Ute and van, spending 2 weeks in home quarantine at the unit - daughter elsewhere. My intention was to pack up and head across NSW and home by the end of September when my house becomes vacant. Originally, I wanted to head to ACT to have a look around but all that is up the tube With Covid. Ok, so after all that introduction, any idea best way to make it home. I would ideally like to travel across NSW via Broken Hill, trying to keep North, cross the border maybe at Tweed heads or within 24hrs (or less driving distance from Tewantin and do 2 weeks home quarantine. If not home quarantine (and that doesnt look at all likely), then hotel but it appears you can only apply for a border pass three days before and I would already be in NSW at that time. Also, would I be able to transit across NSW. I am self sufficient so could avoid people except for fuel etc. Dont know, Im totally confused. I have to leave as my daughters lease is up on 22 Sept. Can anyone enlighten me please. Thanks so much for your time and reading my long ramble - NEWCY
-- Edited by Cnewc on Friday 3rd of September 2021 10:20:58 PM
Are you fully vaccinated?
Thanks for the replies. Yes I am fully vaccinated. I have been looking at travelling via NT 4,500k via Tenant creek. Had a look at going on the Plenty Highway which is just north of Alice and through Boulia to Winton. Shorter but gravel all the way and says the most isolated road in Australia. Not sure that is a good idea for a single traveller though, especially female. Wonder if anyone else is going through - do a tag along.
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 12:13:23 AM
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 12:15:27 AM
Victoria allows Vic residents who are in Qld to cross NSW in a 24 hour window in order to return home, it would be worth checking to see if Qld offers similar to Qld residents in other states.
I don't think you need worry about isolation on the Plenty Highway, it is a well used road, comparatively.
Good on big hearted Dan for letting returning Victorian residents cross NSW - unfortunately we dont want you here as you will be just as much risk of transporting the virus from town to town as anyone else regardless of the number plate you may have on your car...Go through the NT Cnewc you could save yourself the hassle of having to plead your case with the border guards.
"Even the most compassionate cases from NSW are being refused" - what a wonderful country we live in when a state premier has the power to stop a 3 year old from being reunited with their family, or to prevent a fully vaccinated health worker from returning home to visit her dying father then turns around and OKs the families of NRL teams from Sydney to go there.
BB
We were towing a trailer full of "delicate" stuff, so wanted to stay on the bitumen, so the only option was via Mt Isa and Alice Springs, 4,500km.
Just need to complete the border crossing applications along the way.
Cheers,
Peter
Via NT into QLD is likely to be possible, though a longer route.
Evidently you are a QLD resident, so it may possible to go through the exemption process to pass through the NSW/QLD border. You would need to check. You may have to quarantine if coming through NSW. Again, you need to check.
Could be the reason for some of the Non Locally Acquired Covid cases in Vic.
Hi Peter - Guru
thanks so much for that. I have decided to take that route home. A bit late in the season I know as far as heat and wet is concerned. How did you find distances between fuel stops and accomodation. I usually free camp but not game due to the isolation of the route. Any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated.
Carol
-- Edited by Cnewc on Saturday 4th of September 2021 11:24:29 AM
So true. Thanks
Thanks BB. You are right. Ill head North.
Carol
Thanks for the advice EJB. Appreciated
Thank you Mike
That would be awesome
I totally agree I S.
The cost to transport over the years by not having a more direct sealed road route into central western Qld has been astronomical, let alone the benefits for tourism.
Unfortunately there are very few votes for any Federal or State Govt in developing a route to accomodate more direct travel to Qld and vica verca.
We should all hold our govt representatives to task over the improvement of some of these more direct transport routes which would take pressure off of the other roads which at times are completely unsafe for general travel due to traffic volume.
In 2019 we were staying in our van in Broken Hill intending to head down the Silver City Hwy to Victoria, on the night before leaving we heard on the news that the highway had been closed due to some structural problem with a bridge. We decided to do a fairly lengthy detour and go through the SA Riverland and back to Mildura that way. We ended up spending a few days in Morgan, visited some great vineyards and explored an area that we had never intended on going to. Sometimes what seems like a setback can turn out to be an opportunity we were glad that we decided to go that way or we would have missed a great part of the country. I guess its different if you are in a hurry but most of the time we aren't - IMHO the time you spend bypassing NSW Cnewc might be a bit more interesting (and cheaper) than sitting quarantined in a room for 14 days after you get there.
BB
We only free camped on the routes from Sydney, Bourke, Mt Isa, Tennant Creek in 2018 & in 2019 down the Stuart Highway from Great Central Road until we turned off at the Oodnadatta Track. No issues whatsoever with free camping along the sealed road. We have enough fuel for over 1200km on sealed roads without headwind.
We get going in the morning by driving a bit first then have breakfast. We find it gets us going quicker than having breakfast first. By default you then get a break driving.
Then start looking 2 hours before it starts to get dark. If you stop early so be it.
Hi Wombat50
I am on Kangaroo Island at the mo visiting my daughter and only made the decision to go north yesterday, on the exact route youre doing. I head back to Adelaide tomorrow and will need to get my Ute serviced and a few other preparations and hopefully leave before the weekend - about a week behind you. The comments on this forum encouraged me to bite the bullet. It would be lovely if you kept in touch privately perhaps with tips and learnings as you go along Ahead of me. Thanks so much to everyone.
I wonder why our EVER SO CONCERNED PM, PREMIERS AND CMOs werent out Closing Borders and Issuing Travel Permits in 2019, when more than 310,000 were DIAGNOSED WITH INFLUENZA during the Flu Season (March - October 8 months) and 913 Australians Died from the INFLUENZA VIRUS?
But here we are 2yrs later with a Virus that in 2020 Infected just 28,100 and was a Factor in the Deaths of 910! And this year 2021, after 8mths we have around the same number of cases, but with a massive reduction in Deaths, down to just 120!
It looks to me that the News that says that this New Variant although more contagious, is less Deadly. And the figures certainly seem to quantify that ascension.
What has happened that has led to us becoming a society of DEATH & ILLNESS DENIERS?
Over 450+ Australians DIE EVERY SINGLE DAY from Preventable Diseases & Accidents, where is our Governments response to those Deaths? Why CANCER alone takes 50+ lives a day in Australia, and a further 150+ Australians a day are Diagnosed with CANCER! Where are the Daily Updates on these DEATHS and NEW CASES? According to the CANCER COUNCIL of Australia, almost 1 in 2 Australians over 70 will die from Cancer, where is the OUTCRY FOR THESE POOR SOULS?
But when 1,000 Australians with a median age of 82 (who all had COMORBIDITIES!) die from a Virus that strangely has all the same symptoms as the Flu, the Government Mobilise the Army and turn our Police Force into the Gestapo! And with the grand Total of just 3 Australians under the age of 20 who have died WITH the Virus, thats 3 under 20s in a YEAR AND A HALF, the Government are now turning their attack on them.
I am not an ANTIVAXXER! If you want to have the Vaccine then by all means have it I would never try to tell anyone not to have it, but the same token those who wish to be vaccinated should extend the same courtesy to those who do not wish to have the vaccine. And if the VACCINE works? What do you have to fear from anyone who is not Vaccinated? The latest news out of Israel, they have the Highest Number of Vaccinated population in the world, they are now experiencing a huge increase in Cases and over 70% of those new cases are those who have been Fully Vaccinated!
Im surprised that people on this site seem to be buying into the hysteria created by the Government and the Media, after all we are all from generations that went through much worse situations than this, and we have all known and seen death in our lifetimes, and we all know that death is a part of life. My mother went through the Spanish Flu, that WAS a Pandemic, with a population of just 5 Millionover 35,000 Australians lost their lives and over 3 Million Australians were infected (thats 3 in every 5 Australians)! Now that was something to PANIC ABOUT! But this Virus has not yet ECLIPSED ANY FLU SEASON INFECTIONS OR DEATHS, and those INFLUENZA VIRUS DEATHS & CASES happen every year!
-- Edited by Liamray on Sunday 5th of September 2021 09:55:56 AM
What a rant.
Am I expected to pay for your hospital costs, cos you won't be?
Thanks to the great job that has been done and to those who have done their bit (excluding you, by the sounds of it).
Just look at the death rate in the USA. Is that what you aspire to for this country.
Cheers,
Peter
However, I feel that you should have put your posting in the jokes section.
Murray
Without trying to be over cynical, Anna & Jeanette will let you into QLD if you're a football team, a film star or have plenty of money that you'll spend in Qld! Otherwise it's almost impossible to "come home". We'd like to see our families, getting there is no problem, coming back is!
There have been a couple of sneaky characters who have found other ways of getting back without detection but they had kids who skited a little too loudly to their school mates & have been hit with some "extra travel expenses"! Personally I agree with the extra fines as these people can put communities at risk.
The kids have done their dash on birthday & Christmas presents for the decade!
Lucky you can read it, Murray. I can't read things like that and without paragraphs and I have been to 'Specsavers' not that long ago. I tend to put heaps of paragraphs in even more than likely would fail an English test but we all aren't at school now so doesn't matter, just makes it easier to read IMO.
Keep safe out there.