Tourism operators fear loss of Queensland tourists at Easter as Mark McGowan defends WA hard border

As soon as Western Australia re-imposed a COVID-19 hard border with Queensland, the phones started ringing off the hook at the Kununurra Country Club Resort.

“We’ve probably had 20 room nights cancelled, and then a whole bunch of reshuffling to do with people trying to reorganise their holiday and work travel plans,” resort manager Fiona Kuiper said.

It was a “here we go again” moment, she recalls.

“It’s a bit of a sick to the stomach and where is this going to go? Can we do it again?”