The Queensland Premier’s repeated calls for an extension to JobKeeper is “petty politicking”, as the next stage of targeted economic support is already under consideration, the Australian Treasurer says. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has continued to ask for an extension to JobKeeper, saying Queensland’s tourism industry will be severely affected once payments stop on March 28. However, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has reiterated that while JobKeeper has been immensely successful, the program “must come to an end” before its perverse incentives become pronounced. “We stand ready to continue to support Queenslanders through this crisis, as we have done from the very start of this crisis,” Frydenberg wrote in The Courier-Mail newspaper. “No amount of grandstanding and petty politicking by the Queensland premier will detract from the indisputable fact that when it comes to the economic response in Queensland, the Morrison government has done the bulk of the heavy lifting.” He said the …