It seems that in the interest of ALP politics, Annastacia Palaszczuk, the Queensland Premier, decided earlier this week to further depress the Australian economy by imposing a $145 covid test on interstate visitors. The object of this test is not to protect anyone from the dread Wuhan virus. It is to ensure that there is a raging fight with the federal Liberal-National government which she believes will influence the voters in Queensland away from Morrison’s conservative style — particularly when she flicked the bill away from the visitors to Canberra.

A similar strategy was evident in the Daniel Andrews Victorian legislation...