Queensland will refuse to cough up cash it owes New South Wales for hotel quarantine stays until Prime Minister Scott Morrison approves a proposed pop-up quarantine hub near Toowoomba.which would be built and paid for by local construction firm Wagners, needs federal government approval to go ahead.
Mr Miles said his state was “stepping up where the Commonwealth have failed” by proposing the national quarantine facility in southern Queensland.“And yet, the Commonwealth continues to hold New South Wales up as some sort of supposed gold standard,” he told Parliament on Wednesday. “Now, Mr Speaker, I am outraged to advise the house that the Prime Minister has told NSW they can bill Queensland for their hotel quarantine.”
“NSW quarantined 7112 arrivals during the above period who provided a residence address in your state,” the invoice reads.“A further 4991 arrivals did not have an Australian address recorded and have been allocated proportionally across states and territories and are included in your cost allocation.”“Scott Morrison is like a school bully telling us we have to give our lunch money to NSW,” he said.
Qld owes NSW nothing
Bad luck
We all know the money would be siphoned off and used corruptly. So no. NSW can’t have it.
As the QLD government drives its state toward bankruptcy they would not be a customer you would want to lend money to. They’ll be running to the federal government for more bail outs in future with more taxes on Queenslanders!!
Easy. NSW stop bringing in residents from QLD
We ( QLD) are broke , that is why this little prick is bitching.
I thought individuals paid for their quarantine?
If Miles is the best talent to be Deputy Premier, that’s saying something
Big nose can fix up her own bill....
Steven Miles is really trying to compete with Dan Andrews to take the title of the biggest swinging 🍆 in state politics
Right to form ...
Stupid by Queensland! NSW should stop receiving any returning Queenslanders from overseas.
I think at this stage it needs to be deducted from their GST claim. Qld can then figure out how to recover the money. It’s unreasonable to ask NSW to keep sending $ north when Qld doesn’t want to be a team player
Hold your ground Qld !
What can NSW do now, take Queensland to court? That’ll be hilarious!
Oh Queensland shut up and get back to doing what you know.. Opening coal mines amd destroying the barrier reef...
LyndaFrench19 I wouldn’t be paying either.
bubblytest Fair enough
GladysB ScottMorrisonMP Australian citizens were placed under hotel quarantine to protect other citizens so they should not be charged.
That’s because the Qld Government hasn’t got $30 million. We are broke.
So blackmail a state then. Get effed Qld. You are appalling even suggesting this. What could possibly go wrong with a private FOR PROFIT quarantine facility run by a Qld billionaire Need to call Dan Mr Miles, he can update on private for profit aged care in 2020 .
It’s time to limit NSW hotel Quarantine to NSW residents. It’s Un-Australian but the QLD government are operating in bad faith and needs a rebuke for their appalling rhetoric
Good luck with that. Why oh why would you quarantine people in a cold environment where temp. Can be very low in winter which is coming for us in the Southern Hemisphere.
taking a cue from FB. how can we tell people bullying/blackmail is wrong... when we have these people doing exactly that! 😡
Weren’t these same nimrods pleading with people to come and visit Queensland? Absolute weapons the lot of them
Double standards... Despite testing neg before & after flying, strandedAussies are fined $3k & ARBITRARILY DETAINED into unsafe HotelQ solitary, guilty till proven innocent Australians in Oz who test covid19 positive get HomeQuarantine RemoveTheCaps Auspol
Why Queensland govt act like little spoiled precious bitch all the time?!
ScottMorrisonMP gave all the premiers too much power at the start of this pandemic and look at the monster he created. Needs to pull all these morons into line and take over running this country again
Qld has been sponging on NSW for years. Why stop now!
Premiers proving yet again how low rent they are.
So CCP has a military text book on “bio weapon” why does CCP seeking over 2000 virus sample in a year? tell us about it!
No problem. We just need to take in NSW residents from now on.
I love the Queensland government they know Gladys is just another grubby corrupt Liberal
Send the bill to Scotty. After all, he reckons Quarantine is a 'shared responsibility' (it's in the Aust Constitution as a job for the Feds), so how about he pick up the tab & do his share? He does F All else for QT.
Anastasia can just borrow another $30 million to cover that cost. She is grandstanding again, cough up Anna.
What a flog
Simple way to handle blackmail is to redirect $30m of GST allocation from Qld to NSW.
These tinpot Premiers and their health ministers will rue the day the vaccination program is complete. No more pushing everyone around and puffing up their importance. Like anyone else in Australia cares what Steven Miles thinks about anything.
NSW should just stop accepting returning Queenslanders. Problem solved.
Why can't NSW Government chase the debt directly from the travelers who quarantined in NSW regardless of which state they are from?
I though returning citizens paid for their quarantine, if NSW can’t recover their debts bad luck.
Everyone knows that Labor Governmrnts don’t like paying their own way and love to free load off others.
ALP integrity on display. Disgraceful
Its Utterly Deplorable and Disgraceful Govts charging people arriving home on a budget and throwing them into Quarantine Hotel's and then Charging them $2.000 each as a Couple for a fortnight,Swabbing thier noses and and taking BP etc using them as test dummies for Nurse training
holidayhome and not in Qld.
...good..!...money where mouth is...
'Who could forget Prime Minister Morrison’s crocodile tears over NSW residents’ inability to attend funerals or come to our hospitals despite NSW owing us $20 million for hospital treatments already' - NSW owed us so we stopped people mourning or being treated! Just horrible
Yeah that should work 😉
What morons. As if we didn't know.