The Premier still believes Queensland’s third Covid wave is yet to peak while experts are saying it’s “very unlikely” hospitalisations will reach the numbers predicted by government modelling.
Nearly 900 social housing homes could have been built with the $215m spent on the now-mothballed Wellcamp quarantine hub at Toowoomba, says the opposition. We go inside the pandemic panic and petty politicking that led to the white elephant being built.
Queensland Health has refused to confirm whether a mother or her baby died at a South East Queensland hospital. It comes as it was revealed people are waiting up to 15 hours in the state’s overcrowded emergency departments.
The state government has been blasted for ‘prioritising politics over the genuine needs of Queenslanders’ after the $223m cost to taxpayers of the Wellcamp quarantine hub was revealed.
It cost taxpayers $223.5 million, at an equivalent rate of $320,000 for each person who stayed there, but just 160 days after it opened, the Queensland Government’s Wellcamp quarantine facility has served its purpose and will be mothballed.
Doctors say Queensland hospitals are operating at catastrophic levels and fear the system will not cope with a predicted explosion of Covid-19 cases over the next month.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has accused Annastacia Palaszczuk of “no vision” and being too concerned with “glitz” and “glamour” during a spirited exchange over secret Wellcamp Cabinet documents, but the Premier fired back.
The Premier has provided advice to vulnerable Queenslanders, including her own mother, on whether they should attend the Ekka in the midst of a third Covid wave.
Nearly a year after a report on a transformative irrigation scheme was due to be handed to the government, it remains under wraps.
As if the Covid-19 crisis and ambulance ramping weren’t enough, another health crisis has hit Queenslanders where it hurts.
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