THE Palaszczuk Labor Government has been asked to formally apologise to Queenslanders for the worst decision ever made by a state government on behalf of taxpayers.

Today marks the last full day Premier Palaszczuk will hold the key to her controversial $220 million Wellcamp quarantine facility in yet another sad and chaotic chapter in this saga.

To mark the contract ending, the LNP “handed back” the key on behalf of Premier Palaszczuk who has slugged Queenslanders a whopping $500,000 every single day for a facility they would never own.

As revealed by the LNP, just one day of the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s $500,000 Wellcamp waste could have:

• Paid the rent for an average Queensland family for over 21 years.
• Paid the average Queensland family’s electricity Bill for 257 years.
• Paid the rego on a 4-cylinder car for 644 years.
• Paid the average Queensland family’s water bill for 947 years.

In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, Wellcamp has cost taxpayers more than $220 million.

This was occurring at the same time there was another fully publicly owned quarantine facility in Brisbane and the Palaszczuk Labor Government was paying millions of dollars for empty hotels rooms.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Jarrod Bleijie said Queenslanders will never forget how much the Premier’s Wellcamp decision cost them when she should have cared more about bringing down the cost-of-living.

“Will the Premier finally admit this was nothing more than a political stunt and finally apologise to Queenslanders for making the worst taxpayer decision in the State’s history?” Mr Bleijie said.

“More than $220 million has been wasted while Queensland families are facing the worst cost-of-living pressures in the country and are worried about how they’ll pay their bills next week.

“While Wellcamp gathers dust, Queenslanders are forced to choose between feeding their family or paying their electricity bill, and the Premier continues to drive up living costs.

“The Premier claimed this was about future-proofing but now Queenslanders know it was only about protecting the Premier’s political future because the State would never own Wellcamp.

“The Premier promised, ‘build it and they will come’, whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to the ‘great ideas’ the Premier promised for the facility?

“Queenslanders now know that the day the Premier signed the Wellcamp deal was the tipping point when she revealed politics matters more to her than people. Since then, the Palaszczuk Labor Government has slid further into chaos and crisis, while Queenslanders are paying a high price for a government that no longer cares about them.”