Berejiklian said on Sunday night she sent a text to Annastacia Palaszczuk to congratulate her on her re-election as Queensland Premier and reiterate her desire to speak about the border closure to Sydney.

But she said she received no reply until last night when Palaszczuk bragged about Queensland defeating NSW in the Origin I match.

“She replied ‘Queenslander, great game’ or something to that effect,” Berejiklian said today.

“She didn’t mention borders or thanks for the congratulations.

“I didn’t know whether to be shocked or bemused frankly.”

Berejiklian urged the Queensland Premier to take the consequences of the border closure seriously.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton also weighed in, claiming murder and child abuse cases were not being investigated in Queensland because police are patrolling the border.

“I’m worried about jobs and people not seeing their families and she just rubbed in the fact that Queensland won the game … that’s fine.”

“I don’t want to make light of the situation, because yes we all have fun in sport, but the reality is that people are suffering because the border is there and we’re doing everything we can.”

This Monday Queensland relaxed their border, allowing visitors from regional NSW to travel north, but more than 5 million people in Greater Sydney remain locked out.

The 32 local government areas in Sydney continue to be treated as COVID-19 hotspots by the Queensland Government.

Dutton accused the Queensland Premier of playing “State of Origin nonsense” by keeping the state closed to greater Sydney, saying the decision was having dire health and economic impacts and diverting precious police resources.

“We’ve got the police in a situation where you’ve got homicide detectives or detectives from the child abuse unit who are manning roadblocks with northern NSW,” he told 2GB radio on Thursday.

“Those cases that they should be investigating aren’t being investigated.

“There are crimes being committed that shouldn’t be committed, because police are distracted by this.”

He did not provide any evidence to substantiate his claims.

Earlier, Palaszczuk revealed she had yet to talk with her NSW counterpart about opening the border to Sydneysiders.

Palaszczuk has said she will not make any decisions on reopening the Queensland border to greater Sydney or Victoria before the end of the month.

Dutton said state border closures did nothing to protect people from coronavirus.

He said banning travel from China early in the pandemic and closing the international border altogether were the key reasons for Australia’s success in managing the disease.

Palaszczuk’s office said she received a congratulatory text from Berejiklian but it contained no requests to talk about the border.

Queensland recorded no new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, with eight active cases in the state.

Victoria has recorded no new cases and no deaths for the sixth straight day, the state’s health department says.

NSW recorded two new cases but both were people in hotel quarantine after returning from overseas.

-AAP