Hiding behind the “commercial-in-confidence” line, Palasczcuk and her deputy, Steven Miles, were not willing to reveal how much the State Government’s lease of the facility from the Wagner Corporation is costing.

But they both denied media suggestions it was $227 million.

And Palaszczuk quipped that if the Federal Government was prepared to release the costings of its own quarantine facility, being built at Pinkenba in Brisbane, then she would be prepared to revisit her own Government’s need for secrecy.

Why this makes a difference was not clear.

Palaszczuk, Miles and the State’s Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll were all at Wellcamp, near Toowoomba, to tour the new facility, which recently opened for business.

It comes as the Government announced that the last person in hotel quarantine was due to leave on Wednesday afternoon.

Since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a total of 127,772 people have been through hotel quarantine in Queensland, 77,000 of them international arrivals.

At the peak, there were 5014 people in quarantine in 22 hotels and 1200 police on duty.

But from now on, international arrivals and those needing to quarantine, will be housed in the Wellcamp facility, where the first 500 beds are already online and another 500 are coming.

But with international borders now open and the need for vaccinated travellers to quarantine now largely scrapped,  questions are being asked about the need for such a facility.

Palaszczuk said we still have no idea when further virus outbreaks could occur.

And she said a range of people still need to quarantine – the unvaccinated, people who have no suitable place to isolate, international students and overseas workers from countries which do not have recognised vaccination programs.

“I don’t know what is around the corner but you know what, I am future proofing this state,” Palaszczuk said.

“These facilities will be put to very good use, let me assure the public.”

But despite spruiking the benefits of having a purpose built and state of the art facility, the Premier and her deputy were less happy to talk money.

They both repeated the mantra that the figure, to lease the facility from the Toowoomba based Wagner Corporation for a one-year period, was “commercial-in-confidence”.

“If at some stage they (the Federal Government) want to release those costs (for Pinkenba) we are more than happy to release our costs,” Palaszczuk said, adding there seemed to be one standard for the State Government and one for the Federal sphere.