The number of active Covid cases in Queensland is climbing towards 60,000 and dozens more people are in now in hospital with the virus, with authorities urging anyone who has not been fully vaccinated to get their jabs.
The state’s former top judge proposed changing legislation to combat a growing parole board backlog, it has emerged.
An embattled Queensland health service has a new board eight months after an administrator was brought in amid concerns around mismanagement.
A second Omicron wave is sweeping across Queensland with cases spiking by 54 per cent in just two weeks and one in 50 schoolchildren testing positive in the past week alone. There were 9730 new Covid cases on Friday.
Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will tighten political donor rules if needed as she defended her government’s links to a lobbying and consulting firm.
A furious Bob Katter is threatening to switch support to Labor after the Coalition’s $5.6bn mega dam proposal failed to deliver on what he was promised.
Amid a spike in Covid case numbers, Queensland’s chief health officer has revealed what it would take for restrictions to be reintroduced.
A Queensland mayor investigated over comments he made about the vaccine rollout has accused the council watchdog of an “unprofessional and administrative failing”.
Queensland has recorded nine deaths and 8881 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours – the most in a single day since February 2 – marking a 15 per cent spike in the past week amid fears mount that a major GPS rowing event has become a “super spreader”.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended the quarantining of a Ukrainian refugee family, while using her Polish heritage to call out the Federal Government.
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