Toowoomba community leaders said they were kept in the dark about the Queensland Government's construction of a regional quarantine facility at Wellcamp Airport.
Toowoomba Regional Council Mayor Paul Antonio said he knew nothing of the plan and learned of it from a press conference he was not invited to, stating that he and the council were caught off guard and would like to have been consulted.
Construction is underway, with 500 beds available by the end of the year and a total capacity of 1,000 expected by March 2022.
The facility near Toowoomba's Wellcamp Airport will be modelled on the Northern Territory's Howard Springs quarantine facility, which has not had any COVID-19 leaks so far.