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Gladys Berejiklian has warned stubborn state leaders who refuse to open their borders their citizens won't tolerate 'living in a bubble' forever.
The NSW premier is committed to a national plan that gets the country reopened by 80 per cent vaccination, regardless of Covid case numbers.
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But she is in a daily battle with Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland and Mark McGowan in WA, who refuse to risk a single case in their states.
As she announced a new record of 1,288 new cases in NSW on Thursday, she accused such premiers of 'not living in the real world'.  6park.com

'I don't know to what extent citizens in other states will put up with living in a bubble. Not forever,' she said at her daily press conference.
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'There has to come a time when we all realise that we haver to accept the confrontation of living with Covid.
'Previously other states would close to us when we had one case or two cases. That is not living in the real world.
'What is living in the real world is knowing what is a safe way to reopen, a safe way to reconnect Australians but also with other countries.'

Ms Berejiklian said the national plan, which all states agreed to before some in recent weeks began to waver, was 'solid and based on science'.

Cross-border hostility heated up this week as Ms Palaszczuk made the extraordinary claim that thousands would die every month if she opened at 70 per cent.
Mr McGowan similarly said he refused to invite Covid into his state when it enjoys the near-total freedom of zero cases, and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews predicted he would open to NSW until next year.
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But Ms Berejiklian, while hosing down these alarmist claims, said part of living with Covid was to accept that some people would die.
'The sad reality is outside of a pandemic, we lose between 600 and 800 people every year to the flu,' she said.