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Victoria’s interstate Covid travel permit regime being urgently investigated by ombudsman
Allan Meers, trapped in NSW after visiting a terminally ill friend, is one of dozens who have complained to Deborah Glass
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The Victorian ombudsman will urgently investigate the state’s travel permit regime after receiving more than 80 complaints including that a failure to provide exemptions had effectively left some people homeless.
The ombudsman, Deborah Glass, said most of the complaints related to Victorians attempting to return to the state after the border was closed to New South Wales on 9 July.
Read the original article at The Guardian