Queensland goes it alone on quarantine facility

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Queensland will go it alone and build a regional quarantine facility near Toowoomba at Wellcamp Airport.

The Premier blindsided the Prime Minister yesterday, revealing the first travellers are expected to arrive within months:

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk… unveiled the 1000-bed facility on Thursday as work teams moved onto the Wellcamp site to start construction.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.