QLD NSW border: Mayor Tom Tate makes appeal to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Mayor Tom Tate has appealed to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to work with Queensland after Bulletin readers backed his plan to move the border. SEE THE RESULT OF OUR POLL

MAYOR Tom Tate has appealed to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to work with Queensland after Bulletin readers overwhelmingly backed his plan to move the border.

Cr Tate earlier this week proposed moving the border 7km south to the Tweed River amid mounting frustrations about delays at border checkpoints.

The proposal was well received by Bulletin readers, with 73% of 2209 people backing the mayor in an online poll.

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“I’m not surprised,” Cr Tate said. These border closures have shown the folly of the current boundaries. As I have said the river creates a natural border.

“Come on Gladys Berejiklian, please amend the NSW law so your police near the border, can work alongside QPS on border closures. It’s not that hard.”

Readers backing the plan said it was “not rocket science” and said the current situation was “a joke”.

The mayor’s idea was not just popular with residents of the Gold Coast, with a number of people from the Tweed area backing the change, at least temporarily.

“I live in Tweed and work in QLD,” Danielle Taylor commented on the Bulletin’s Facebook page.

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“I think that moving the border temporally while the border is restricted will be a better way to stop Covid from spreading to our area and help all our rate payers and residents out trying to live their day to day lives.”

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she would support moving border checkpoints south, but said the proposal had already been rejected in Sydney.

“I put that to NSW and they rejected it,” Ms Palaszczuk told the Today show this morning.

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“This was right from the very beginning, to make the Tweed River the border, so those border communities could go backwards and forwards, and that was rejected.”

But Member for Tweed Geoff Provest claims New South Wales has heard nothing but ‘radio silence’.

“I spoke to Gladys (Berejiklian) this morning and she has not heard from Annastacia (Palaszczuk) at all,” Mr Provest said.