Australia faces a future of venues divided into those for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has suggested.
Ms Berejiklian responded to concerns expressed by hospitality insiders that they face a potential 'legal minefield' in policing the vaccination status of patrons.
The NSW roadmap plan, which allows more freedoms for fully vaccinated residents when the state reaches 70 per cent vaccinated, was 'extremely black and white', she said.
But she was less clear when asked how venues could operate once the eligible population reaches 80 per cent full vaccination.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said unvaccinated people could not access venues at 70 percent of the eligible population fully vaccinated, but was less clear on what will happen once the 80 percent target is reached
People queue outside a Covid-19 pop-up vaccination clinic at Ashfield in Sydney
'At 70 percent, if you're not vaccinated, it will be a health order and the law... you can't attend venues on the road map. You can't go into a hospitality venue. You can't go to ticketed events unless you are vaccinated.
'We made that very clear for 70 per cent double dose.'
The orders mandating full vaccination would apply to both venue staff and patrons, she confirmed.
Ms Berejiklian said the NSW government was working on what would be possible at 80 per cent of people double dosed, while suggesting that certain restrictions would still apply to unvaccinated people.
'Even at 80 per cent, the kind of questions government will need to answer is, do you want, say, for example, 100 per cent of a venue occupied?
'If you do, that's great, but that means you'll probably need vaccination. If you want 70 per cent of a venue occupied, you might be able to rely on social distancing and other measures.
'These are the issues to think about at 80 per cent. It's not been made public because we're still working on it.'
In restoring freedoms, the premier said the government still needed to take account of the possible impact of unvaccinated people on the health system.
'We need to consider not only what the unvaccinated population could do to our hospital system, but the rate at which the disease can still spread if too many people are unvaccinated,' she said.
'Imagine if 30 per cent of our adult population all got the virus, a large proportion got ill, our hospital
