It was a move many didn't think would ever happen, again, but on Monday Gladys Berejiklian addressed the nation to reveal border communities would be divided by a line of police and Australian Defence Force personnel at checkpoints.
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Come day one of the border closure, residents waited up to two hours to cross the Lincoln Causeway from Wodonga to Albury and while things were smoother the morning of day two, traffic slowed to an agonising crawl by the afternoon peak hour.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said the checkpoint would likely be in place for at least six weeks.
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