The Palaszczuk Government is handing back the keys of the state's multimillion-dollar quarantine facility after the project cost Queensland taxpayers more than $220 million.
The Wellcamp facility, which opened in February to accommodate travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic, will no longer host guests from August 1 following updated advice from the Chief Health Officer.
“The Wellcamp waste happened while the State Government was still paying tens of millions of dollars for empty hotel rooms and with a Commonwealth owned facility coming online at Pinkenba.”Instead, the State Government spent a quarter of a billion dollars on a nearly empty quarantine facility.The State Government cares more about how things look rather than how things really are.
"The expert advice was that we needed it so Queensland could cope with future unknowns and provide the certainty we needed to open up the state.Mr Miles also said the Sunshine State's COVID-19 response"made Queensland the jobs and lifestyle capital of Australia". "This was a trigger happy decision to try and wedge the former Federal Government and this waste could’ve funded nearly 2500 nurses in the middle of a health crisis.Mr Miles also revealed the figures associated with Wellcamp for the first time on Wednesday.
Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles answers questions during a hearing at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled
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