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QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced that essential workers with an exemption to cross into QLD from NSW will require at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This requirement will come into effect from Friday, 20 August 2021, and be in place until further notice.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a strengthening of lockdown rules along with a two-week extension - lockdown is now due to end on 2nd September 2021. The extension is the result in growing numbers of unlinked cases being detected within the community. New restrictions coming into effect as of 11.59pm on Monday, 16 August 2021 include a curfew from 9.00pm to 5.00am every day, playgrounds closed, and restriction on construction. Essential workers and children authorised to attend school will require permits to do so from 11.59pm on Tuesday, 17 August 2021.

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner has announced Greater Darwin and the Katherine region will go into a snap lockdown for 72 hours at midday local time on Monday, 16 August 2021, after a case of COVID-19 was detected in the community. The lockdown will apply to the Darwin, Palmerston and Katherine local government areas, as well as the Darwin rural area.

Tasmania will declare Greater Darwin and Katherine as high risk level 2 from 4.00pm on Monday, 16 August 2021. This means anyone who has spent time in the Greater Darwin and Katherine regions will not be permitted to enter Tasmania unless approved as an Essential Traveller and if approved, they will need to quarantine at a suitable premises for 14 days.

The whole of New South Wales will go into lockdown from 5pm on Saturday 14, August 2021. This new order will replace any existing orders in regional NSW. Everyone must stay at home unless they have a reasonable excuse to leave. They also cannot have visitors in their home from outside their household, including family and friends. People still can have one visitor at one time to fulfil carers' responsibilities or provide care or assistance, or for compassionate reasons, including where two people are in a relationship but do not live together. Anyone who leaves their home must carry a mask with them at all times. Every employer across NSW must require their employees to work from home unless it is not reasonably practicable. It is a reasonable excuse to leave your home for work – but only if it is not practicable to work from home.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a lockdown extension of seven days for Armidale. The city in the Northern Tablelands was originally due to come out of lockdown at 12:01am on Sunday, 15 August 2021.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a raft of new restrictions for Great Sydney. From Monday, 16 August 2021, additional fines of $5,000 will apply for on the spot quarantine breaches, lying on a permit, or lying to a contact tracer. There will be $3,000 fines for people breaking the two-person exercise rule or travelling into regional NSW. Across all of greater Sydney, the 10km radius rule will now drop down to 5km. Authorities have also removed “recreation” from the public health rules, meaning police will be cracking down on people outside their homes who are not exercising.

WA has further tightened its border restrictions for people coming from high-risk states, requiring proof of at least one COVID-19 vaccination and a negative test result in the last 72 hours. Premier Mark McGowan announced the changes to the controlled border with NSW as that state recorded 390 new COVID-19 cases in the community. The new restrictions are due to take effect next Tuesday, 17 August 2021, and will apply to all jurisdictions designated high risk, where there are more than 50 new cases a day.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has amended the risk level to multiple jurisdictions. Currently, NSW is deemed as medium risk, but will move to high risk from 12:01am on Tuesday, 17 August 2021. Victoria, QLD, and SA are deemed as medium risk - but SA will move to low risk from 12:01am on Saturday, 14 August 2021. The ACT is currently declared as low risk but will move to medium risk at 12:01am on Saturday, 14 August 2021. The trio of New Zealand, the NT, and Tasmania have been deemed as very low risk jurisdictions.

The lockdown in the Hunter Valley region scheduled to end at midnight on Thursday, 12 August 2021, has been extended by another week. The LGAs impacted are Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Cessnock, Dungog, Singleton and Muswellbrook.

QLD has reopened its border with SA, effective immediately. To enter QLD you still have to complete an entry pass, get tested if you develop any COVID-19 symptoms after arriving, and monitor the list of interstate exposure venues daily (at least once every 24 hours) from the time you complete a declaration and for 14 days after arriving in QLD.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr has announced a seven-day lockdown for the ACT that will begin at 5.00pm on Thursday, 12 August 2021. The territory has recorded one positive case of COVID-19 - it's the first locally acquired case in more than a year.

QLD has announced it will declare the ACT a hotspot from 1:00am on Saturday, 14 August 2021. Anyone arriving from the ACT after this time will go into mandatory hotel quarantine for 14 days - anyone arriving from the ACT before then will be required to complete 14 days of mandatory home quarantine. Tasmania has also classified ACT as a hotspot, effective from 5:00pm on Thursday, 12 of August 2021. People who've spent time in the ACT will only be let in to Tasmania if they've been granted essential traveller status and will have to quarantine for 14 days.

The Northern Territory will declare the ACT as a COVID-19 hotspot from 4.30pm ACST on Thursday, 12 August 2021. Anyone approved to come to the NT from the ACT after that time will be directed into 14 days of supervised quarantine at their own expense.

Cairns and Yarrabah will exit their snap lockdown at 4.00pm on Wednesday, 11 August 2021. Restrictions will remain in place and will mirror the restrictions in the 11 South East Queensland LGAs.

Walgett Shire and surrounding LGAs have been placed into a snap lockdown from 7.00pm on Wednesday, 11 August 2021, after a local man who travelled to Dubbo tested positive for COVID-19. The Western NSW LGAs of Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Narromine and Warren have also joined Walgett in lockdown.

The Northern Territory Government has revoked hotspot declarations for eleven LGAs in South East Queensland. The areas, including Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Logan City council areas are no longer considered hotspots for the purposes of travel to the NT. Cairns and the Yarrabah area remain declared hotspots.

The Byron Shire, Richmond Valley, Lismore and Ballina Shire LGAs will go into lockdown at 6.00pm on Monday, 9 August 2021. The same rules will apply in lockdown, similar to the current restrictions in Greater Sydney. This follows a positive case from Sydney travelling to Byron Bay. The snap lockdown is set to last seven days and residents in those areas will be subject to stay-at-home orders. The rules will also be extended to those who have visited any of the regions since Saturday, 31 July 2021.

The NSW city of Tamworth will go into lockdown for one week from 5.00pm on Monday, 9 August 2021, after a COVID-positive woman from Newcastle travelled to the area.

Anyone who has recently entered the ACT from either Tamworth or Byron Bay must immediately go into isolation according to new rules introduced by the territory. ACT Health on Monday updated its advice for the LGAs of Byron Bay Shire, Ballina Shire, Lismore, Richmond Valley and Tamworth after NSW enforced a snap lockdown on these areas. The new rules apply to the LGA of Tamworth from Thursday, 5 August 2021 and the remaining LGAs from Saturday, 31 July 2021. Returning ACT residents will be required to apply for an exemption 72 hours before they return.