WA Premier Mark McGowan says state and territory leaders 'are not children for [Canberra] to boss around', as his row with the Prime Minister over plans to increase the number of returning travellers deepens.
But Mr McGowan said he felt "ambushed" by the Commonwealth's request after finding out about it through a journalist at a media conference on Wednesday."The ADF should be helping us, the Australian Border Force should be helping us, the Australian Federal Police should be helping us to manage all of these things," he said."The Constitution, Section 51 , says quarantine is a responsibility of the Commonwealth, immigration and foreign affairs the Commonwealth.
"Since early September, the ADF has agreed to provide up to 90 personnel to support WA health with hotel quarantine compliance," the spokesperson said in a statement. "Bossing people around, basically saying they are just going to fly people in and dump them on our doorstep is not the way to conduct these matters," Mr McGowan said.
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