Move to Tassie thwarted by Covid

MY wife and I are currently waiting to relocate/retire back to Tasmania. We have been excitedly looking forward to this for the last two years.

We retired and sold our home in the Hunter Valley in NSW just before this latest outbreak and were half way through the moving process when Tasmania declared NSW as high risk level 1.

We are now locked down in our small caravan with our dog in the border bubble town of Corowa which incidentally at the time of writing this letter has not had a Covid-19 case. We have had two negative Covid tests, been fully vaccinated, have our own home in Launceston and have family who are willing to support us should we be able to home quarantine.

However, rather than being individually risk assessed, we have been told we must go into hotel quarantine and our requests for a G2G pass have been turned down due to lack of spaces in hotel quarantine, which becomes difficult to understand when you see sports people being able to fly in and out of Tasmania.

My wife and I love Tasmania and are 100 per cent for doing what’s right for the state and we wish more could be done for stranded returning residents.

Stephen Venner Prospect Vale