Residents crossing state lines in a regional community along the Queensland-NSW border displayed permits on their dashboards that were sighted by police officers, and the council there negotiated its own system for some crossings.
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Goondiwindi Regional Council mayor Lawrence Springborg told The Border Mail the permit system established for his region had worked very well over nearly three months.
"We're probably very similar to you in that the border is only a line on a map that separates people, but they are one community," he said.
"People went fairly freely backwards and forwards, and trucks went straight though, as they were logistics.
"They [police and Queensland Transport workers] would get the occasional person coming across who wasn't allowed, and they would be put into self-quarantine and given a quarantine order."
Two major checkpoints were manned by police and government staffers, with cars slowing down to the border and waved through, and those without permits displayed being questioned.
Five other crossings were managed by council with 70 crossings on average taking place in those locations each day.
"We came up with an arrangement supported by the Queensland police, where people who were border permit access holders were issued with a code on their smartphone, and they could manage their own movements - it was people, for example, who had split farming enterprises," Cr Springborg said.
"It worked extremely well; I can't remember getting one single complaint in our area.
"I understand in Tweed [Heads] it's a slightly different situation, because of population and a whole range of things.
"I have no idea what the arrangements are between your governments - whether they will be allowing to-ing and fro-ing at this stage.
"But I can say that in our case, the Queensland arrangement did take into consideration very well the unique nature of border communities and it worked well for us."
As a regional Queensland border town four hours southwest of Brisbane, with a council catchment of approximately 20,000 people, Goondiwindi is less similar to Albury-Wodonga than a place like Tweed Heads.
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