Border communities are suffering for no reason and now there are no new community COVID cases in NSW or Victoria the closure must end, Northern Victorian MP Tim Quilty says.
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Mr Quilty accused Victorian Premier Danial Andrews of 'playing the bully' and not having compassion or sympathy for border communities.
"The border closure has never made sense, but there is now absolutely no reason for the traffic queues and the police standing for hours in the sun," Mr Quilty said.
"He's allowing harm to happen to regional Victorians with not the slightest twinge of regret - he is playing to an audience in Melbourne at our expense. Again."
Mr Quilty, who held an early morning border crossing to celebrate the end of the NSW border closure, called on Mr Andrews to visit the border region.
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"We are seeing businesses struggle to stay afloat, daily lives disrupted and emotional distress being spread everywhere along the border," Mr Quilty said.
"And let's not forget that when a small business is struggling, that is a family losing its income, that's employees being laid off, that's yet another punch in the guts for regional communities."
Mr Quilty said he would personally buy the Premier a box of donuts - to celebrate the zero cases - if he visits the border region.
"I would love to see Mr Andrews open up his phone, launch a maps app and head up the Hume to see for himself what his decisions are doing to Victorians," he said.
"At least the NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, had the nerve to come to Albury - albeit briefly, after a long and notable absence - to see for herself the harm she created.
"Mr Andrews can only see as far as Craigieburn. To him, there is no Victoria beyond Melbourne."