At the request of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the military deployment will entail 100 soldiers based along the New South Wales border.
Essential workers have been defined as someone who is required to provide "time-critical services in Queensland that are needed in Queensland and cannot be obtained in Queensland" according to Queensland Health.
Dr Young said she had contacted the Premier's Department to work with the directors-general of other departments on the assessment. "They understand them. So for agriculture, for telecommunication, for all of those areas; my own director general Dr [John] Wakefield is going through it for health.Dr Young said she would like to see the numbers going over the border to "down to zero"."We are now going through just to make sure that every single person coming across that border is genuinely necessary to the functioning of Queensland.
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