Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Scott Morrison and the state opposition are using people's personal tragedies involving border restrictions to subject her to the worst bullying she's seen in her lifetime.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the prime minister and the state opposition are using people's personal tragedies involving border restrictions to subject her to the worst bullying she's seen in her lifetime.
"It is absolutely not acceptable for the leader of the opposition to do what she is doing today: a coordinated campaign with the prime minister's office is disgusting and it is demeaning," Ms Palaszczuk told state parliament. "The only thing that matters today is that Sarah can be with her 11-year-old sister Isabel and her mother Merna while they mourn the passing of their father and husband Bernard at Mount Gravatt today," he told Sydney radio 2GB.
"The premier here in Queensland is just so pig-headed and people are suffering because of it," Mr Dutton told radio 2GB on Thursday. "Around the world, we have seen bodies being buried in the pits ... where no families have been able to say goodbye," the premier said.
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