'The federal government can throw whoever they want at that, we can have Clive Palmer as well.' Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will not be pushed into opening the border. 9News
Currently the Queensland border is closed to all of Victoria, NSW and the ACT. Queenslanders returning home can enter but must go into mandatory hotel quarantine at their own expense.Ms Palaszczuk said the economy could not grow without having an effective health response first.
Ms Palaszczuk also said a new hotline to field medical exemption requests for New South Wales residents needing treatment across the border would be established. Queensland Health said the woman did not need an exemption to enter the state for emergency care, but the woman's father believed it would have taken too long to "jump through the hoops" to enter Queensland, and so his daughter was sent to Sydney instead.Overnight one new case of COVID-19 was recorded, connected to the growing Brisbane Corrective Service's Academy cluster.
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