Senior Queensland government members railed against the comments in State Parliament within hours,with Ms Palaszczuk labelling them “incredibly disappointing” and “reckless”.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles said the venue mandate had been asked for by businesses and had helped lift vaccination rates,suggesting Mr Morrison was attempting to seek votes at the upcoming federal election among those opposing the vaccine rules.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath pointed to Mr Morrison and her federal counterpart Greg Hunt’s earlier insistence that states introduce the compulsory jabs for aged care settings.

While Police Minister Mark Ryan urged LNP Opposition Leader David Crisafulli to call out comments by Queensland-based federal counterparts like George Christensen labelling the broader vaccine plan “segregation” and “apartheid”.

This included coffee entrepreneur and LNP donor Phillip di Bella,who last week said he would not “discriminate” at his cafe before later conceding he would abide by any laws though may not be resourced to police them.

While Mr Crisafulli has dismissed suggestions the rules were too extreme,at least one colleague in the state party room has expressed objections and said if it was a path out of the pandemic the government needed to outline how and when this would occur.

“We need to trust Queenslanders to make the right decision for themselves,their families,and their communities,” Toowoomba North MP Trevor Watts told Triple M Darling Downs during an interview last week,packaged up and shared on his official Facebook page.

“I don’t think we should be coercing people and forcing people and certainly not in an ongoing way.”

Colin Boyce,the state member for Callide who will contest the federal seat of Flynn in next year’s election,has also labelled the move a step towards “totalitarian rule” on social media.

Experts have backed bans on unvaccinated people entering some riskier settings and as a tool to help boost take-up of the jabs,but say nuance is needed andquestion their use beyond high vaccination rates of about 90 per cent as flagged in Victoria.

Queensland is expected to review its rules at that threshold – likely reached in January – though has suggested they may continue beyond this point. There are no plans from the state toaccept a negative test result for entry,used in the UK and European Union,despite calls from the Katter’s Australian Party.

More than 82.8 per cent of Queensland’s 16-years-plus population have now had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine,with 71.1 per cent fully vaccinated – about 10 percentage points behind the national average.

Analysis of the recent Sydney Delta wave showed unvaccinated people were16 times more likely to enter intensive care than cases who were double-dosed.

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