The body of an elderly man has been pulled from a submerged utility on the Darling Downs after two vehicles were swept down a creek. It comes as the Lockyer Valley town of Grantham, which suffered the heaviest toll of the 2011 floods, is once again on an evacuation footing.
One of the first families to make it back into Queensland after the border partially reopened on Monday night has detailed their harrowing trip.
The Premier has faced a hostile reception at a Queensland community as she was forced to move her daily press conference from a park to indoors. It comes as she tells unvaccinated Queenslanders today’s three new locally acquired Covid-19 cases are a wake-up call.
Traffic was left backed up more than six kilometres through Brisbane’s CBD following reports of a spill on a major arterial route this morning.
A teacher’s aide has been killed, while her husband is critical and their daughters are also in hospital after what police have described as a “horrific” crash at a “very great rate of speed”.
Queenslanders enjoying the People’s Long Weekend from Friday can get a Covid shot with their ice-cream at a whole host of tourist-friendly locations including theme parks and surf life saving clubs up and down the coast, as the drive to get to 80 per cent fully vaxxed ramps up.
A Tweed Shire Covid-19 outbreak has the Gold Coast on edge as a truck driver also tested positive and an unvaccinated Uber driver remains “very sick” and could be moved to ICU.
An unvaccinated Gold Coast Uber driver who has tested positive to Covid-19 after spending more than a week in the community while infectious has been identified. The manager of the resort complex where he lives says he has had to ‘shut everything down’.
The Premier has set a date for Queensland’s borders to reopen and for families to be reunited, but there has been both a positive and negative response. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Huge hail and damaging winds have hit parts of southeast Queensland as the region was battered with 50mm of rain in a matter of minutes and two-centimetre hail.
Original URL: https://www.couriermail.com.au/journalists/edward-randell/page/7