Mr McCormack said the closure of Australia's internal borders in response to the coronavirus pandemic was now restricting "life as we know it".

He claimed "many" of the border restrictions currently in place were there for political purposes and said regional Australians had been most adversely affected by them.

"Let's get on and open those borders up, allow tourism to be what it needs to be, allow Australians to travel freely around their own country and get more planes flying interstate," he said.

"Certainly when it comes to regional areas some of these places haven't had a COVID-19 case for many months.

"Indeed, some of them haven't had a COVID-19 case at all and yet they've been locked down unfairly and this has caused great hardship to farmers, to small businesses, to people trying to access health services."

His comments came as NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the easing of some restrictions on her state's border with Victoria, which should come into effect next week.

The NSW government will amend public health orders to allow border residents to more easily cross the river.

Regional Victoria will move to step three of its coronavirus reopening plan from September 17, meaning dining in restaurants, children's sport, holiday travel and meeting up to 50 people outdoors will be allowed.

Ms Berejiklian said once the changes come into force, anything allowed under stage three of Victorian restrictions will be allowed on the border.

"Now restrictions have been eased in regional Victoria, we are similarly doing that for our border communities to have consistency," she said.

"So whatever you can do in regional Victoria you can do in those [border] communities.

"We're also increasing the number of towns, I think around Shepparton, that will be included in the border community and we will provide hundred of exemptions for shearer and harvesters to make sure critical ag workers are getting across the border."

Mr McCormack said he was being guided by the "best medical advice" which was "not saying that border restrictions need to continue".

He said regional Victorians had been hurt and affected by "simply unfair lockdowns" because of something that happened in Melbourne.

The most up-to-date daily average COVID-19 case number for metropolitan Melbourne is 52.9 and regional Victoria is 3.6.

On Wednesday, Victoria reported 42 new cases on Wednesday and eight deaths, while NSW reported 10 new cases, four of which were locally acquired.