State Leaders in Australia Clash Over Hard Border Stoush

A vehicle stops at a checkpoint on the Pacific Highway on the Queensland - New South Wales border in Brisbane on April 15, 2020. Patrick Hamilton/AFP /AFP via Getty Images

Hopes of ending weeks of heartache for communities on the Queensland-NSW border have been dashed once more, with the states’ leaders again strongly disagreeing over a proposal to move the hard border checkpoints south.

Queensland in late July reintroduced a hard border with its southern neighbours in response to the spiralling outbreak of COVID-19 in NSW, progressively tightening exemptions for cross border travel.