Queensland's not Api with the NRL. Fair enough too after the allegations Penrith hooker Api Koroisau twice breached the NSW Blues' State of Origin bubble.

It prompted Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young to say she's "very close" to ending the agreement with the NRL.

Koroisau joins South Sydney forward Jai Arrow, who got sent home from Queensland's Origin camp for similar breaches of bringing a woman into his hotel.

And who could forget almost the entire St George Illawarra team getting busted having a barbecue at the now sacked Paul Vaughan's house.

Given the ongoing saga in Sydney and parts of NSW it's not surprising Young's getting a little skittish.

"I'm getting very close to it. I'm very, very concerned about what is happening with these NRL players," she said on Friday.

"This is too risky. We just cannot have people deliberately breaching the rules."

The NRL issued Koroisau with a breach notice on Friday night - proposing a fine of $35,000 and suspending him for two games, effective immediately, ruling him out of Saturday's game between Penrith and Brisbane.

It has to be pointed out a majority of the NRL players, currently camped out in Queensland, have obeyed the rules with the actions of the few threatening to ruin it for the majority.

But if they get the boot from Queensland there's an easy fix for ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys.

Bring the NRL to Canberra.

We've got the perfect three venues to host the competition.

Instead of Lang Park, the Gold Coast and Townsville, you swap in Canberra Stadium, Viking Park and Manuka Oval.

It's looking increasingly like the AFL's not going to grace us with their presence for the rest of the season, opening the door for Manuka to be something of a mini SCG - maybe the Sydney Roosters could be based there to help them feel at home.

The Raiders can return to train at their centre of excellence in Braddon, while a few clubs could train out of their old facility in Bruce.

There's plenty of other places the clubs can train - provided the ACT government public servants can be prevented from closing all the grounds at the slightest drop of rain.

Plus you've got the largely unused AIS just sitting there with all their sports science on offer.

Given almost every state government has lumped us in with NSW to classify us as red zones - despite having zero cases of the coronavirus - it would be a timely boost for Canberra's hotels.

There would obviously need to be a few provisos to make the ACT government happy.

Recalcitrants - this country's screaming out for a Prime Minister who's even a tenth of the politician Paul Keating was - like Koroisau, Nathan Cleary, Tyrone May, Arrow and basically the entire Dragons squad, would obviously not be welcome in the capital.

That should be enough to get the deal across the line. Especially when we call on Duntroon's resources to set up guards outside the team hotels.

On a more serious note, it's hard to fault Australia and New Zealand's decision to pull out of the World Cup.

The organisers could have some grievance with the lateness of the decision, but even that has mitigating circumstances.

Like the English government deciding they've given up on trying to control the coronavirus and just throwing all protocols out the window.

Infection rates are skyrocketing again with close to 40,000 new cases uncovered every day.

Compare that with the 134 in NSW.

If you weren't vaccinated, which most of the NRL players aren't, you'd be taking a massive risk in going to England.

And the Australian and New Zealand rugby leagues would be negligent in sending their players there.

NRL ROUND 20

July 31: Canberra Raiders v Newcastle Knights at Lang Park, 5.30pm.