MPs across Queensland have been flooded with letters and calls pushing for voluntary-assisted dying legislation to be introduced before the October state election, but both sides of politics are refusing to commit until one thing happens.
Queensland has expanded its list of coronavirus hot spots in Sydney, with 600,000 people from 104 suburbs now banned from entering the state.
After it was revealed teachers and police would be granted special pandemic leave in the wake of the State Government’s contentious public servant pay rise deferral, unions are piling on the pressure for thousands more frontline workers to get the same deal.
One new case of coronavirus has been recorded in Queensland in the past 24 hours, taking the number of active cases in the state to three. Today’s update comes as NSW records more than a dozen new cases and further restrictions loom in Victoria.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has flagged the possibility of pandemic leave for health workers, but denied it’s in response to demands from unions angry over deferred pay increases.
A record number of southerners have been turned away after attempting to cross the Queensland border on the Gold Coast, as the state considers closing the border to more parts of New South Wales.
The first city railway station to built in more than 120 years will provide links to mega projects like Queen’s Wharf and the Eagle Street Pier redevelopment and create jobs for thousands of Queenslanders.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s push to move the border south to the Tweed River crossing has been met with a radical alternative by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. It will effectively place the Gold Coast in NSW.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is refusing to confirm whether there will be a place in Cabinet for embattled MP Jackie Trad if Labor wins the October election, responding to comments from her former deputy it was missing “a bit of flair”.
Queensland has one new case of coronavirus, with a COVID-19 positive crewman taken to hospital from a bulk carrier off the Sunshine Coast. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the man was ‘completely secure’ and authorities were monitoring the vessel.
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