Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

Apropos of my previous answer, we are happy to work with any state, any territory to build a proper quarantining facility so long as we've got those criteria answered as well as local community support. But we're not going to subject regional areas to any potential outbreaks, because regional areas have been the safest place in all of the world during this COVID-19 pandemic, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else other than regional Australia right now, because it has proven to be leading the economic recovery out of COVID-19 and the safest health-wise in all of the world.

But we are happy to work with the Queensland government—

Ms Catherine King interjecting—

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