Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate wants checkpoint on M1 to avoid COVID-19 sending businesses broke
ABCGold Coast Mayor Tom Tate wants a police checkpoint erected on the M1 between Brisbane and Gold Coast to avoid future chaos in the tourist capital during border closures and lockdowns. Key points: Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says better ways needed to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks Queensland Police Acting Chief Superintendent Rhys Wildman says a checkpoint on the M1 at Logan River would be an "operational challenge" The Gold Coast City Council will vote tomorrow on a Small Business Relief Package His call comes one day after the Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, lifted the south-east Queensland lockdown, which kept more than 3 million people at home under strict stay-at-home orders. Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says council will vote on a Small Business Relief Package on Tuesday. "The Gold Coast is unique in the way we have 66,000 small business people who have family type businesses and they've put everything in it, their mortgages against it," he said.
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