Queenslanders could spend the festive season in isolation with warnings a significant outbreak of Covid-19 could come within weeks as southern states battle to contain the Omicron variant. 

Queensland has catapulted from having the worst unemployment in the nation to almost the best – and there’s another 200,000 jobs on the way for the sunshine state. 

High-flying travellers are chartering private jets to Queensland rather than risk being forced into quarantine by Covid-positive passengers on commercial flights. 

Police have found $7 million of methamphetamine hidden inside a pot plant after stopping a truck at Yatala on the northern Gold Coast. 

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