Now, what I’d like to see from the federal government, we’re running campaigns at the moment to get people vaccinated. What I’ve said clearly and Dr Young has said this and the health minister has said this: we need to be in a situation where every eligible person, so every eligible person in that cohort is offered a vaccine. So it’s a bit disappointing that we haven’t been given that due courtesy before national cabinet.īut, premier, would you be against opening the border at 80% vaccination rates? It would be irresponsible and I think that Queenslanders would expect me to see some paperwork, to understand the issues before an announcement is made. I’m not going to agree to anything when I haven’t seen any formal paperwork. It has not been distributed in any papers to national cabinet prior to national cabinet’s meeting. I look forward to hearing about that plan. I understand that the prime minister is doing a press conference at 10.30. I look forward to hearing about the plan. We’ve moved quickly in this presser, Annastacia Palaszczuk is now asked about borders opening and international borders, and is not having any of it: We need some urgent, immediate help and every state and territory health minister is calling on that. Not just public, but our entire health system. We need a serious conversation in this country about the funding commitments from the commonwealth for our entire health system. So there’s so many things that the commonwealth are directly responsible for, including aged care and disability, that impact on the public health system. That every time the private sector, primary and allied healthcare fails, someone can’t see a GP for two weeks or four weeks. But that doesn’t change the fact that we rely heavily on commonwealth funds for our public health system. We have made sure that our staff are trained and prepared to deal with infectious diseases. Pressed on that, and on why the government appears unprepared, D’Ath doubled down: We need that rectified or the commonwealth needs to fund us for those beds. We’ve got too many people who shouldn’t be in hospitals with disabilities, who should be in care under an NDIS package, who are taking up beds.
We’ve had a funding guarantee under Covid until June 30. We need uncapped funding and a funding guarantee. So what every single health minister in Australia, every single health minister from every state and territory has signed a letter to the commonwealth health minister, Greg Hunt, and said we need extra funding, we need 50-50 shared funding. We were already feeling the pressure of demand and Covid has come over the top. Health minister Yvette D’Ath was asked about ICUs and turned the blowtorch on to the federal government: The Queensland press confernce has come to an end but not before a discussion about ICU and health capacity.
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