A Central Queensland politician has blasted the premierâs proposal to move returned Queensland travellers to remote mine camps, describing it as an âabsolute insultâ.
Stakeholders including Queensland Health and police will meet with owners of the proposed accommodation Âfacilities this week to discuss how the rollout could work.
No exact locations have been released yet, but many of the stateâs mining camps are in the Central Queensland region.
Burdekin MP Dale Last said he could not even believe Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was serious about using a mining camp as a quarantine facility.
âWhat the premier needs to understand is that many of the mining communities have what is effectively a third world health service,â Mr Last said.