"Our kids literally wouldn't be alive had it not been for cross-border healthcare, so this has really hit home for us," the woman said. "What's happening at the moment is scary.

"I know too many people who feel so overwhelmed they can't speak up, so we have to."

This is what she wrote...

Dear Premier,

Before I get to my point I want to tell you a little bit about myself.

I am a border resident. I spent 10 years as one of "those people" living on the NSW side of the river, and two years ago my family moved to Queensland... Sorry... "Our side".

My husband and I grew up in Southeast Queensland and Brisbane has always been our base city.

The city where we do our business and run our errands and ship our grain from. Queensland is where we visit family, holiday and plan to send our kids to boarding school one day. It's the city we have a firm affection for. Thanks and you're welcome.

Most relevant to this conversation, however, is that Brisbane is the city that housed us when our baby was transported 'across state lines' to spend 80 days in NICU. Brisbane is the city that housed us for more than half my pregnancy with my second child. It's where we sort the specialist medical care that gave us two surviving children out of our seven pregnancies.

Ours is admittedly a raw story and in all honesty the tyranny of the 600km distance to specialists and the costs incurred to access what we needed (with travel, accommodation and the rest) meant that, in-spite of our rainbow and sunshine plans for four children, we stopped when we held our second.

We are not the only ones. We are not alone.

We spent many years writing and fighting for better cross-border relations in emergency medicine. I'm sure you can understand the pure horror we faced when the NSW Air Ambulance and NETS team stood on the tarmac at Brisbane Airport, unplugged my tiny baby from his monitors and ventilator and lifted him out into the wind and rain to put him in a second transport cot to go to the hospital because "they had no jurisdiction to take him all the way to the hospital". Red tape and bureaucratic rubbish that left all 860grams of my child susceptible to infection and potential death... I used to think that was a big deal but what I've seen this week has levelled that.

When you, as a leader, stood in front of the media smirking as they pleaded the injustice of a sick newborn without his Mum and the Mum who stood to lose one of her twins before it was even born; you set a fire in our community.

When you disregarded the survival of Australian children for your own populist politics because 'they' weren't on 'team Queensland', did it sit well with you? Did you feel any discomfort? Or was your job and your point scoring more important? Was your callousness a fair reflection of the sort of person we have in charge?

It might be news to you but as border residents we've spent months upon months printing passes, lining up at border checkpoints, being extra cautious with all the recommendations. And as rural people we spent weeks in lock down, in our littles towns, despite the fact we had no cases to speak of within cooee. We did all the things asked of us because we are Australian and we were told we were 'all in this together'. For you to then segregate us into 'us' and 'them' so flippantly has left our collective blood boiling.

What you were pressed about wasn't the hundreds of caravanners from around the country that made a run for the border, cleaned out our rural supermarkets, had the arrogance to be rude to our local people who were just trying to meet the requirements bestowed upon them by your government. It's not the people from further afield (or from Queensland itself) who lied or broke the rules. We are talking about denying healthcare to Australian's whose lives are at risk. People who have done all the right things. People who deserve better. And you smiled as you openly dismissed them. How dare you.

We are all for you making big examples out of people doing the wrong thing. But making an example out of people desperate, in their hour of need, who deserve and are entitled to emergency medicine at the closest available hospital equipped to treat them is heartless and obscene.

In our little towns we talk. We talk about the concern we hold for bush kids being held hostage in boarding schools because their mums and dads can't collect them or they can't return without quarantining in a hotel. We talk about how the hell we will harvest the food you expect Queenslanders to be able to eat if we can't move our harvesters and workforce. We talk about the employees who can't get to work. We talk about the kids who can't get to school. We hear each other and the bush telegraph is running hot with rage at your lack of understanding.

But we've all come to expect that level of disconnect from a Premier who can't see past Toowoomba or beyond Noosa.

So, we will stay out here growing the food and paying the taxes. But don't for a second think that we will do it quietly. We will make noise and hope for a shift. A softening of your heart. A change in your attitude. Exemptions that bend to allow the compassion and kindness that Queenslanders pride themselves on. A true reflection of Australian values that incorporates common sense and decency with open arms and a positive attitude.

Healthcare is essential. Education is essential. Employment is essential. Agriculture is essential. Kindness is essential. Compassion is essential.

Kindest regards,

A resident of #TeamBorder