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'Bureaucracy gone mad': NSW-Vic border hurdle risks health and jobs

John Kehoe
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Victorian-based service station owner Peter Anderson says NSW border restrictions that force staff to fly into the state, rather than drive, risk spreading the coronavirus and will obstruct the creation of 40 jobs at a new centre being built in the regional city of Wagga Wagga.

The Anderson family business, APCO Service Stations, which owns 26 centres in Victoria, is getting to the "pointy end of the job" building a petrol station and an attached convenience store across the NSW border in Wagga.

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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com

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