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Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick says Queenslanders are fed up with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s hypocrisy in planning to travel to the Tokyo Olympic Games whilst halving the number of international arrivals.

An online petition to prevent the Queensland premier from travelling to Japan in a bid to secure the 2032 Olympic Games has garnered over 20,000 signatures.

“I think the issue that Queenslanders have with our premier is her hypocrisy in the way she’s dealt with COVID,” Mr Rennick told Sky News.

“I’ve got no problem with people travelling overseas but there’s got to be one rule for all and the problem is last week she cut international arrivals by half, and that may be the correct thing to do but if she’s going to do that, she shouldn’t then travel herself.

Mr Rennick says Ms Palaszczuk needs to be consistent in her approaches to dealing with COVID.

“But I think the bigger issue is last week we had the State of Origin up here on the Sunday night, she locked down on the Monday throughout the week then opened up again on the Saturday for another football game on the Sunday where tens of thousands of people could gather in this one place with no masks on.

“It’s that hypocrisy between locking down on individuals and small businesses, having their livelihoods smashed, and then on the other hand travelling overseas herself or allowing big events to take place and I think that’s where people are sick and tired of the hypocrisy.”