Wednesday 19 August – Updated permitted work premises in Victoria & NSW
The NSW Government is now issuing permits for critical Victorian agriculture work to continue in NSW. Under the new Highly Specialised Critical Services (Agriculture) Permit. The new conditions and border permit application guidelines can be found here. The positive response from the Victorian Government is here. For one Victorian farmer the changes come just in time. You can watch […]
Monday 7 September – COVID Restrictions Update for Victoria
On Sunday 6 September Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews laid out the steps which will be followed to allow the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. The overall roadmap can be found here. The industry restrictions roadmap for metropolitan Melbourne is here. The industrial restrictions roadmap for regional Victoria is here.
Thursday 19 September – Victorian border closure with South Australia
In response to the COVID-19 cluster in South Australia and the state going into lockdown, Victoria will close its border from midnight Thursday 19 November, for 48 hours, and then implement a permit system.. You can find details here.
Thursday 19 November – Six day lockdown for South Australia
Due to a COVID-19 cluster on the outskirts of Adelaid, the South Australian Government has announced that it will go into a six day lockdown with all but highly essential businesses closed and restrictions on all movements. The emergency document and ruling can be found here. More information from Business SA is here.
Wednesday 3 February – Update on Melbourne restrictions
Due to an outbreak in Melbourne Victoria is now enforcing extra restrictions on movements, crowd numbers and masks. The details of the new restrictions can be found here.
Tuesday 2 February – National Vaccine Roll-out strategy
Friday 12 February – Victorian Snap Lockdown
Victoria has announced a snap stage four lockdown for five days. Details of the restrictions and exemptions are here.
Saturday 13 February – NSW advice on Victorian Snap lockdown
NSW has released its guidelines on how Victoria’s five day lockdown will impact NSW and travel between the two states. The details are here.
Thursday 27 May 2021 – Victoria announces snap COVID 19 lockdown
The Victorian Government has announced that as of midnight tonight the whole state will go into full lockdown in a bid to contain and manage the current COVID 19 outbreak. The government lays out that forest industry operations for the purposes of, or relating to: production of firewood for heating of premises; or production of pallets; or production […]
Wednesday 2 June 2021 – Victoria extends COVID 19 lockdown by another 7 days to midnight 10 Ju…
The Victorian Government has announced that due to the continuing spike in cases of COVID 19 the full lockdown announced last week is to be extended by another seven days until midnight 10 June. But it has warned that Melbourne residents will still have travel restrictions in place for the following Queens Birthday long weekend. AS well finanancial […]