Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Prime Minister must ‘step up’ for costs of coronavirus hotel quarantine

The Queensland Premier has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to take greater responsibility for international quarantine as the state marks one year since it declared coronavirus a health emergency.

Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Federal Government needed to “step up to the plate” and support state-run hotel quarantine programs.

It comes as the state recorded one new case, a women in her 40s who is in hotel quarantine after travelling from Pakistan via Doha.

“As we contend with the new unknowns of COVID-19, a national quarantine plan would mean proper Commonwealth funding as well as adequate Defence Force and Border Force resourcing,” she said in a post on social media.

“There’s no doubt the state-run hotel quarantine program…