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‘Corporate mates’: Queensland lashes exemptions for business travellers amid Covid outbreak
Federal home affairs minister says international travel claim is a ‘smokescreen to hide the ineffectiveness’ of state quarantine system
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Queensland authorities say the state’s latest coronavirus outbreak has been traced to a hospital patient who was repeatedly allowed to travel to and from Indonesia for business, prompting accusations “the prime minister’s corporate mates” have been granted exemptions to cross the closed international border.
The state reported three new community Covid cases on Wednesday – all known contacts of existing cases – on the first day of a snap lockdown.
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