Law and border: how Queensland’s harsh rules are creating hardship and heartache
by Ben Smee from World news | The Guardian on (#5NK35)
The state's stance is politically popular. But for many in the intertwined communities along the NSW frontier, bureaucracy is trumping common sense
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Welcome to Checkpoint Coolie," says one of the gawkers watching police check papers, then vaccination records, on Griffith Street as cars try to cross into Queensland.
The New South Wales-Queensland border has been closed before, but not like this.
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