Posted 01 April 2020
Updates - 1 April 2020
From Premier Mark McGowan - Closing of the WA Regions
"Overnight, at midnight, the restrictions over travel between regions within Western Australia came into effect. All non-essential travel within Western Australia must now stop. I wish that 2020 could have been another landmark year for Western Australian tourism, but sadly that is not to be. These measures were unthinkable just a few weeks ago, but sadly they are a step we have to take to protect Western Australians from the COVID-19 threat. Unless you fit an exempt category, you will now not be able to leave whatever region of Western Australia you live in. To be clear, those regions are: the Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne, Mid-West, Goldfields-Esperance, Wheatbelt, Great Southern and South West. Due to their proximity and interconnected nature, Perth and Peel will be treated as one region...