Queensland bolsters border closure with barriers and checkpoints to keep coronavirus at bay

After some locals labelled the border closure a ‘detour’, Queensland police are now enforcing a ‘hard closure’ to dismay of twin towns residents

The great wall of Coolangatta is about a metre high, constructed of hollow plastic and filled with water. The barriers now stretch across the eight suburban back streets, at the formerly invisible line separating neighbours in New South Wales and Queensland.

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