Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to take any personal responsibility for her hardline border stance which has stopped children from visiting their dying fathers.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to take any personal responsibility for her hardline border stance which has stopped children from visiting their dying fathers and one grieving daughter from attending a funeral. Speaking to the media on Friday, Ms Palaszczuk said while it was “absolutely heartbreaking” a young Canberra woman was not allowed to attend her father’s funeral in Queensland – she, the premier of Queensland – had no say over the decision.
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'The buck stops with Premier Palaszczuk' as daughter is barred from father's funeral | Sky News AustraliaQueensland Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates “there is no justification” for the Queensland government’s refusal to let Sarah Caisip attend her father’s funeral in the state. \n\nQueensland resident Sarah Caisip flew home from Canberra, where she took a job a few months ago, to see her dying father. \n\nShe was unfortunately too late and was placed in hotel quarantine, despite the ACT not having community transmission of COVID-19 for more than two months. \n\nMs Caisip was eventually granted an eleventh-hour exemption to see her father’s body but was denied being able to attend his funeral on Thursday afternoon, and the opportunity to be with her grieving mother and 11-year-old sister.\n\n“Sarah was not a threat to anybody, Sarah needed to be with her family today, and all Annastacia Palaszczuk had to do today was be compassionate, consistent and show common sense,' Ms Bates told Sky News host Chris Kenny. \n\n“Sarah had been in quarantine, she’d finished her quarantine, she was no risk to anybody.\n\n“She should have been allowed to be at her own father’s funeral, and the only person who should take responsibility for her not being there, to say goodbye to her father, to support her mother and kid sister, is Annastacia Palaszczuk.”\n\n“The buck stops with Annastacia Palaszczuk.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Decision to close WA border was made 'without weighing up sufficient arguments' | Sky News AustraliaSky News contributor Graham Richardson says the decision to close borders is a complex one which requires many arguments be weighed up first, and the trouble with Western Australia’s decision is 'there hasn’t been near enough weighing up'.\n\nSky News host Alan Jones asks whether the Western Australian authorities “are ... liars, hypocrites or just stupid” as their decision to keep the state’s borders closed blatantly contradicts their statements in March which warned closing them would be bad for trade, and further, unconstitutional. \n\nWestern Australian Premier Mark McGowan still has the WA border firmly shut to anyone, yet in the West Australian Parliament on March 18, he said, 'If we close the borders to the East what will happen to our markets of products and supply chains for important goods.'\n\nWestern Australian Health Minister Roger Cook said, 'well there is this little thing called the Constitution… we cannot turn around and say, one Australian cannot meet and visit another Australian.'\n\n“I think what they are, are people who want to ignore one part of the argument totally,” Mr Richardson told Sky News host Alan Jones. \n\n“These are complex decisions, just because you have the power to do something, doesn’t mean you do it.\n\n“You have to weigh up all of the arguments in a complex situation before you move.\n\n“The trouble is, I don’t think here’s been near enough weighing up here.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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'Heartless Premier Palaszczuk' won't let a dying dad see his kids | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says Queensland’s “heartless, dangerously stupid premier” and the “nasty public health bureaucrats” are denying a dying man from being able to have his children hold his hand before he dies.\n\nMark Keanes, a father suffering from terminal cancer in Brisbane, has family and children in NSW who are seeking to visit their dad one last time, however Queensland Health has made this difficult, telling the family to choose one child to send up to say goodbye. \n\n“This is not about a bunch of people who want to go and relive schoolies,” Mr Murray said. \n\n“This about people who deserve the right to hold the hand of their dad before he dies.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Labor members not standing up to Palaszczuk ‘make me sick’: Hanson | Sky News AustraliaOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson says the Labor members who aren’t standing up to Annastacia Palaszczuk’s “disgusting” behavior are all in the same boat and “make me sick”.\n\nHer comments come after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk deflected attacks from the Opposition Leader over her refusal to allow 26 year old Sarah Caisip attend her father's funeral saying the decision was made by Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young.\n\nQueensland resident Sarah Caisip flew home from Canberra, and was too late - missing her father’s death - and was placed in hotel quarantine, which then precluded her from attending her father’s funeral.\n\nMs Palaszczuk also declared in Queensland parliament that she “will not be bullied nor … intimidated by the prime minister” who phoned her to plea for the woman to get an exemption.\n\nMs Hanson said if this is the premier’s behavior before an election “imagine what she’s going to be like after the next election if she wins it”.\n\n“To those Labor Party members who are sitting, you are no different to Annastacia Palaszczuk because I have not heard one of you stand up against her and the way she’s carrying on,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Paul Murray.\n\n“Not one of you stood in parliament to say it’s wrong. As far as I’m concerned you’re all in the same boat and you make me sick”.\n\nImage: Getty
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Qld Premier accuses PM of 'bullying' after 'heartbreaking' funeral scenario | Sky News AustraliaSky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says a “heartbreaking story” has emerged from Queensland of a young woman from Canberra forced to remain in hotel quarantine while the rest of her family attends her father’s funeral.\n\n“After intervention from the PM and a media storm, she has been allowed to see her father’s body but not comfort her 11-year-old sister at the funeral even though she comes from virus-free Canberra,” he said.\n\nMr Clennell said Sarah Caisip told him by text message: ‘Yes, I’ve been granted [exemption] to only view the body after the funeral’.”\n\nScott Morrison personally rang the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk about the case after talking to Ms Caisip earlier on Thursday morning, arguing the exemption could be made in this instance.\n\n“This isn’t about the Premier of Queensland and me or anyone else,” he said. \n\nHowever, Ms Palaszczuk responded saying: “I will not be bullied nor will I be intimated by the Prime Minister of this country … to who I made very clear the fact that it was not my decision, that I would pass the information on to the Chief Health Officer and it is the Chief Health Officer's decision to make”. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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