Birdsville

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PLEASE DON’T VISIT
Telephone: (07) 4746 1600 Facsimile: (07) 4746 1272
? www.diamantina.qld.gov.au
Yesterday, the Local Disaster Management Group has been activated and has ‘Stood up’ in response to COVID-19.
Council’s focus is on ensuring the health and safety of the shire residents during these difficult times.
To achieve this, Council is following the guidelines set out the Prime Minister and Queensland Government and has closed various council facilities, stopped non-essential staff travel outside the shire and rescheduled non-essential visits by contractors.
All tourists who are still planning a trip to Birdsville or Bedourie are strongly requested to cancel these plans for 2020. Please follow the direction of the Prime Minister to cancel all non-essential travel. The desert crossing west of Birdsville is closed indefinitely, the Birdsville Bakery is closed, you can’t have a beer at the front bar of the Birdsville Hotel and our small local events have been cancelled. We love you, but we will love you even more when you visit in 2021.
Birdsville or Bedourie is not the place for you to wait out COVID-19. We are essentially closed for business.
Our local health clinics are designed for our normal small local population. We don’t have the sophisticated health care system to cope with an outbreak of COVID-19 in our remote towns. Please stay home. If you are on your way, turn around and go home.
To support local business during these tough times, Council will close the Birdsville Lodge and Bedourie Caravan Park indefinitely. If tourists continue to ignore the rules around non-essential travel, Council may have no choice but to close the Birdsville Tourist Park and ban camping on the town common in the best interests of our residents.
Council will continue to monitor the advices from the Australian and Queensland government and consider their application and impacts to the Diamantina Shire.
We are putting the health of our community first this year, and we don’t apologise for that.
ENDS


Cheers
Jim

Yep, planned trip to the Simpson Desert in April/May - cancelled. Hopefully will be able to go later in the year.

Macca.