Sky News and Courier Mail contributor Peter Gleeson is calling on the Prime Minister to mediate tensions between the Queensland and NSW Premiers.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian today told a press conference her congratulatory text to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palasczuk following her reelection was met with radio silence until last night.

Her reply – ‘Queenslander’ – was a jab at NSW’s loss in the first game of the State of Origin series.

“I’d really to see … Scott Morrison … say ‘hey guys listen, this is a pandemic, we’re not playing playschool here … you’re not four-year-olds in the sandpit throwing sand at each other’.

“Clearly Gladys and Annastacia, they need to get a room, they really do!”

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