Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will not be pushed into changing her stance on the state's border closure.
"Queensland will continue to have our borders closed to keep Queenslanders safe," Ms Palaszczuk said this morning.
"I'm not going to be moved on this," she said.
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"The federal government can throw whoever they want at that, we can have Clive Palmer as well."
It comes after Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg pushed premiers and chief ministers to show "more compassion" saying closures had caused immense hardship.
"I think there's so much confusion and ultimately too much cruelty in the way that their borders have been closed," he told Sky News yesterday.
"What we need is more compassion, all we need is more common sense."
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Currently the Queensland border is closed to all of Victoria, NSW and the ACT. Queenslanders returning home can enter but must go into mandatory hotel quarantine at their own expense.
Ms Palaszczuk said the economy could not grow without having an effective health response first.
"Fundamentally the health of Queenslanders is my number one concern and you can't have a strong economy, you can't have the economy growing unless you have the health under control," she said.
Ms Palaszczuk also said a new hotline to field medical exemption requests for New South Wales residents needing treatment across the border would be established.
The announcement follows a string of controversial cases, including an expectant Ballina mother who lost one of her unborn twins last week.
Queensland Health said the woman did not need an exemption to enter the state for emergency care, but the woman's father believed it would have taken too long to "jump through the hoops" to enter Queensland, and so his daughter was sent to Sydney instead.
One new case, masks recommended on public transport
Overnight one new case of COVID-19 was recorded, connected to the growing Brisbane Corrective Service's Academy cluster.
The new case is a close contact of a previously confirmed case.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said the new case had only spent two days in the community before she was quarantined after a close contact tested positive.
It comes as the state's chief health officer told Queenslanders they should start wearing masks where social distancing wasn't possible, like on public transport and in shopping centres.
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