“These sorts of different rules for some isn’t without precedent – during the recent statewide lockdown we saw that there was a ban on construction activity in South Australia, only for a few days later to see (Premier) Steven Marshall announce exemptions for building and construction on school building projects that they want to get finished before the next state election. “Whatever the Government does in terms of brining essential workers across the border, or people in on the basis of compassionate grounds, it needs to be transparent and consistent, so that every South Australian can have confidence in the process not being determined by political factors like completing an infrastructure project on time,” he said. It comes as Labor leader Peter Malinauskas today accused the State Government of prioritising interstate tradespeople contracted to work on the Gawler rail electrification project over South Australians who are desperate to return home. “My option is otherwise just sitting here waiting on bureaucracy to decide that the borders are going to come down.” “So what? I get a $3000 fine and I have to go into a $3000 medi-hotel? At least this will be over,” she said. She said she had contacted state and federal MPs from both sides of parliament, but no one was able to help her return back to South Australia.Īrcher said she was now “weighing up whether to just get to the border”. The heartbreak is happening right around Australia, right around the world as this pandemic rips through our communities “This is not good enough – they’re making decisions about people’s lives and not explaining why.Īrcher said she had rung the SA Health COVID information line about seven times but had not been given clear advice about when she would be able to return to South Australia. “I’m taking this on – I want those people held to account in Government,” she said. She said she was now seeking legal advice to determine what options she had to appeal the decision, or what penalties she might face if desperation led her to consider entering South Australia without an approved travel exemption. She applied for a travel exemption to return back to Adelaide on August 11, but said SA Health didn’t notify her until September 9 that her application had been declined.Īrcher, who is fully-vaccinated and currently living outside a COVID hotspot area in eastern Sydney, said SA Health did not tell her why her application had been declined.
Adelaide mother of two Keltie Archer told InDaily she travelled to Sydney, which was under lockdown, on August 10 for “deeply personal” and “desperate” family reasons, which she said she was reluctant to reveal.
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