With PM Scott Morrison taking every opportunity to attack the Queensland government over its border control with New South Wales , there was an extraordinary event in Townsville ,not picked up by the media . Down in the waterfront Anzac Memorial Park , the fountain marking Queensland's separation from colonial New South Wales, erupted, above, like Mount Vesuvius . This has been interpreted as a miraculous sign that the Gods of the nether regions were so angered by Scomo's base campaigning for the LNP that they threw up .