Australia has been warned it faces a pressure cooker moment as state premiers urge a dramatic reduction in international arrivals to stop coronavirus outbreaks. Labor premiers in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia are calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to reduce passenger caps. “We are at a pressure cooker moment,” Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday. But Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews rejected calls to reduce caps, with the issue set to be high on the agenda at Friday’s national cabinet meeting. “We need to learn to live and to work in the COVID environment in which we find ourselves,” she told reporters on the Gold Coast. “The first response should not be to close down our borders.” Ms Andrews said weekly caps of about 1000 passengers entering Queensland and 3000 coming to NSW were not large. Outbreaks of the contagious Delta variant have plunged more …