QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk played the first notes from the State sovereignty provisions of the Constitution as a rousing electoral anthem, after renaming them “Up Yours Australia, Queensland is Closing Its Borders”.
In stark contrast, the second stanza adopted the inclusive cooperative spirit of the Constitution, culminating in a screeching fortissimo high note, demanding that Treasurer Josh Freidenberg bail Queensland out, after seeing for himself the pain and hardship Palaszczuk had visited on the tourism industry.
After the pain inflicted on the rest of Australia by Premier Andrews’ incompetent bungling of hotel quarantine, followed by Queensland’s capricious border closures, I am astounded that commentators and political pundits have said not a word about re-working the federal covenant, to inhibit the power of individual States to institute policies seriously damaging other States and Australia as a whole. PC
Yes, it’s outrageous that Palaszczuk is asking for ANOTHER huge handout when she caused the mess for her tourist industry.
Andrews, Palaszczuk and McGowan must wear their dictatorial decisions, pay for their mistakes themselves. They could start with donating their fat salaries to the tourist trade cause!
They conveniently forget just how many billions of dollars of debt the JOB keeper, seeker and finder schemes have racked up and which Australians will be paying off for generations. Somewhere well over $200 billion isn’t it?