From Paul Bongiorno,
"University of Queensland law professor Graeme Orr confirms that under the state’s legislation “only a public health officer can let someone out of quarantine to go to a funeral”.Mr Morrison and his ministers were asking the premier for “a special favour” in defiance of the law that would undermine the strict quarantine imposed under the authority of the designated health officer.
As the senior minister in the immigration portfolio, Peter Dutton would be well aware that granting discretionary decrees only encourages more to try.
And in the struggle to control the highly infectious COVID-19, this would be extremely risky.
The federal ministers are contemptuous of Queensland’s crime and corruption law designed to protect the state against political misuse of power.
Professor Orr says “it would be highly inappropriate for a minister to intervene”.
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