As the nation reopens now that the immediate threat presented by
COVID-19 has passed, most Australian businesses are finding
themselves faced with a list of new rules and regulations they must
comply with in order to minimise public transmission of the
virus.
Welcome to the future. Many of these regulations are undoubtedly
here to stay. And so too, will be the hefty fines that accompany
any breach of them.
A pub in Roma in Queensland was recently fined more than $6,000
for breaching new post COVID-19 rules with regard to social
distancing and the registration of patrons.
'Fine could send us broke'
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And it is a fine the pub says could send it broke on the back of
weeks without trading because of lockdowns. Of course, many country
areas had already been struggling for years under a crippling
drought and then many more suffered bushfires before the threat of
COVID-19 at the beginning of March, which forced many businesses
into mandatory shutdown or
