I write in response to your Editor’s Edition (14/5) on the Queensland Premier’s plan to put a quarantine facility at Wellcamp, outside Toowoomba. As you suggest, quarantine is a federal responsibility under the constitution. Early last year it was agreed by the PM and the Premiers that the states would take on this responsibility as…
Travel agents in Groom will benefit from sharing in additional funding support of $130 million from the Coalition Government. Garth Hamilton MP said local travel agents should apply for funding support in Round 2 of the COVID-19 Consumer Travel Support Program, which opens later this month. “The Coalition Government has committed $258 million to support…
I rise tonight to place on the record my deep concern and even regret at the Queensland Labor government’s idea of placing a regional quarantine camp in Toowoomba, in my electorate of Groom. The Premier floated this idea at a press conference on 22 January 2021, in what now seems a desperate attempt to find…