Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles said the tough stance on people from Victoria because Queensland "can't afford to import that risk from other states":
"For people who have been in Victoria, or live in Victoria, within 14 days, they will no longer be able to travel to Queensland.
"We will strengthen, we will be much stricter, in applying the exemptions and allowing people to travel here.
"We have seen a number of people attempt to travel from Victoria, and willingly go into that mandatory hotel quarantine where they have to pay for the cost of that hotel quarantine, because they are making the decision that that two weeks and that cost is worth it to get out of Victoria.
"And so, we don't want that to continue.
"We need to reserve hotel accommodation for people who need to be quarantined, Queenslanders and Australians returning from overseas, Queenslanders returning from Victoria.
"And so we will be much stricter there. That will mean some very hard decisions and that will mean we need the community's understanding.
"There will be people who have very good reasons to travel to Queensland, and while there will continue to be compassionate grounds, hardship considerations, they will be much stricter applied to people returning from Victoria."
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