Uncertainty in the border zones as checkpoints ring locked-in suburbs

Closed cafes, checkpoints, quiet streets and a prevailing sense of uncertainty: welcome to the borderlands – the places along the invisible line separating 10 locked-down postcode zones from the relative freedom of the outside world. 'It's uncertain, especially on the first day,' said Claudette, who runs Union Square Fish and Chips, which lies on the locked-down side of the Brunswick-Brunswick West postcode border.