Australia's mishmash of COVID border closures is confusing, inconsistent and counterproductive
- Written by Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
If you live in the northern part of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the epicentre of one of two current COVID outbreaks in New South Wales, you can’t currently cross any state borders. Instead, you’re confined to the local area for all but essential reasons.
But sadly, that’s pretty much where the consistency ends when it comes...





