The Queensland treasurer has lashed out at the NSW and federal governments, which he says are "chock full of crazies" trying to open up the country to COVID-19 regardless of the consequences.
Cameron Dick launched a scathing attack on the NSW government, which he says had failed to go hard and go early against its COVID-19 outbreak.
He said the NSW government and Prime Minister Scott Morrison were now trying to force the country to open regardless of whether all individual states had reached 80 per cent vaccination coverage.
"The LNP governments are chock full of crazies," the treasurer told parliament on Tuesday.
"They don't believe in border controls, some of them don't believe in COVID.
"When these crazies complain about businesses or borders they are using code, what they are really complaining about is they don't want us to fight the virus.
"They want us to run up the white flag and open the borders to an uncontrolled outbreak in NSW, just because they say they have hit their vaccination target."
The prime minister earlier called on Queensland to bring in home quarantine as the state deals with a shortage of hotel quarantine rooms and faces criticism over border exemptions for sports stars.
Scott Morrison says Queensland must move to home quarantine, which is being trialled in South Australia, to solve capacity issues in hotel quarantine.
"I share people's frustration about that (exemptions for sports stars) no doubt about that," he told 4BC Radio on Tuesday.
"But, what's the answer, I'll tell you what the answer is: we need to move to home quarantine. Home quarantine means there'd be (quarantine) places for all Australians, for all Queenslanders."
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ruled out a trial of home quarantine arrangements until the government sees the results of a trial in South Australia.
In parliament on Tuesday she dug in, saying Queensland needs purpose-built quarantine facilities to keep the state safe.
She again vowed to press on with a state government plan for a 1000-bed quarantine facility outside Toowoomba, saying it will be open well before the federal government's 800-bed centre in Brisbane.
"We are stretched to the limit," Ms Palaszczuk told parliament.
"We must have alternatives to our hotel quarantine system that better protect Queensland."
Ms Palaszczuk also told parliament she was looking to bring extra quarantine hotels online to deal with demand, amid criticism of exemptions being granted to NRL players and their families while Queenslanders can't get home due to capacity issues.
The premier previously distanced herself from the NRL exemptions, saying those decisions were made by the chief health officer.
"The Queensland chief health officer takes all care in dealing with requests that come to her for a whole variety of reasons, the exemptions unit has been increased because we know this is a very concerning time for families," she said.
There's been some good news for the families of children who attend boarding schools interstate.
From next week Queensland will trial arrangements to allow them to return and quarantine at home with their families, in time for the September school holidays.
Queensland currently has 23 active cases of COVID-19. There were 11,257 tests in the past 24 hours, and 15,621 vaccines administered by Queensland Health.
The premier said 51.3 per cent of eligible Queenslanders have now had one dose of a vaccine, and 31.76 per cent have had two doses.
