All the latest information on the Queensland lockdown
A woman who supported hundreds of Queenslanders locked out of the state at the height of Covid lockdowns has been recognised for her kindness – but she’s still angry about the experience.
More than 2000 people clashed with police on the Gold Coast/Tweed border on Sunday, protesting against lockdowns and Covid-19 restrictions. Pictures by Richard Gosling.
Brisbane’s premier lunch district is bearing the brunt of deserted offices but holding on in hope that workers soon return to fill tables.
Annastacia Palaszczuk’s credibility has been shot to pieces and Labor may already be looking for a replacement, writes Des Houghton. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Fears of an impending lockdown are growing among nervous Queenslanders just two weeks before school holidays. WHAT READERS THINK
A Tweed schoolgirl living with a rare illness is being kept away from her Queensland-based parents due to border closures, while at the same time families of NRL players jet into the state. HER STORY >>>
The Queensland Treasurer has taken aim at LNP governments as the Prime Minister sounds a warning on state border reopenings.
Queensland has recorded four new cases in hotel quarantine as National Cabinet continues to weigh up the risks surrounding Australia’s reopening.
Queensland’s Covid-19 elimination strategy serves no one except the Premier who is using it as a distraction, writes Kylie Lang.
As restrictions are eased across southeast Queensland, the Premier has doubled down in defence of her controversial quarantine plan.
Hospitals and medical facilities on the Queensland-NSW border are scrambling to fill staff rosters after a shock 1am edict stopped hundreds of employees from crossing.
If only the State Government spent the same energy keeping us safe in our beds at night as it does blaming the Prime Minister and threatening lockdowns, writes Mike O’Connor. VOTE IN OUR POLL
For a Premier who has proven she is politically astute, going it alone to set up a quarantine hub at Wellcamp could prove to be an own goal and smacks of politics, not protecting the population, writes Matthew Killoran.
The Covid-19 quarantine camp in Brisbane will be built by global construction company Multiplex, with drilling rigs already on site.
An extra 25 cops have been deployed to the Queensland border with NSW in a blitz on pedestrians dodging police checkpoints.
A woman has been caught trying to get across the Queensland border by hiding in the boot of a car mounted on a tow truck, and it wasn’t her first attempt. See the moment cops uncovered her hiding place.
Queenslanders have shared fears of temporary homelessness and being out of pocket for thousands of dollars after this week’s announcement of a pause on relocations into the state. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Once the star of the economy, Queensland’s tourism industry has dropped out of the top 10 as devastating losses continue.
Annastacia Palaszczuk has been blasted by the Deputy Prime Minister for causing an “idiot position” on the NSW-Queensland border.
The Queensland Premier announced the construction of a new regional, purpose-built 1000 bed quarantine hub near Toowoomba this morning. Here, in her own words, are the reasons she’s made the call to go ahead without any federal assistance.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended keeping Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the dark as constructions starts on a 1000-bed regional quarantine hub at Wellcamp, just outside Toowoomba.
Early works have started on a 1000-bed regional quarantine hub in Toowoomba but the state government doesn’t even have approval for international flights to land there and won’t say how much it’s costing taxpayers.
As national cabinet meets to discuss restriction exemptions for vaccinated Australia, entering businesses could be one of them. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s latest border move has been blasted as making it harder for Queenslanders to return home from within their own country than for Australians to travel overseas. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Passengers on the last plane to Brisbane have scraped in before a two-week pause on relocations to the Sunshine State.
Aged care workers are among the dozens of people being turned around at the Gold Coast’s hard border with New South Wales amid chaos, confusion and anger as officials struggle to interpret the rules.
Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to say whether Queensland would reopen once most of the community is fully vaccinated, saying it’s too soon to reveal her strategy.
Every single car that tries to enter Queensland from NSW will be stopped by police with very few allowed entry. Here’s all the rules you need to know.
If there’s a single moment that symbolises how political imperatives have let down ordinary Australians in the pandemic, this is it, writes the editor.
After a local MP raised concerns, a Gold Coast hospital has moved to ensure critical staff who live across the border can make it to work on Monday.
Of the many questionable decisions made by health authorities during the Covid-19 pandemic, one stands out, writes Peter Gleeson.
Queensland has recorded no new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 overnight, but the Premier has warned we are “not out of the woods yet” and anticipates more cases from the Indooroopilly cluster that sent the state into lockdown on July 31.
Queensland has put in place its “tightest” ever border control measures as police barricade the state from people attempting to enter from New South Wales.
A local MP claims 34 teachers will be missing from one Gold Coast school on Monday, as workers who live over the NSW border are locked out of Queensland.
Covid-19’s impact on the tourism sector has been of widespread devastation, but a surprise silver lining is delivering an extraordinary upside.
Forget climate change, pandemic lockdowns are presenting an existential threat to tourism operators on the Great Barrier Reef.
Dozens of NSW-based teachers and childcare workers recently reclassified as non-essential will be unable to enter Queensland as the border shutdown hardens.
Extra police are being sent to the Queensland-NSW border after the whole of the southern state was plunged into a snap seven-day lockdown, causing chaos for tens of thousands of people in border communities.
Queensland’s latest Covid-19 outbreak has wiped out months of economic momentum in the Brisbane CBD with office staff given the chance to work from home in the wake of strict face mask rules.
The 19-year-old son of a Sydney man dubbed ‘patient zero’ in a northern New South Wales Covid lockdown has been charged by police.
All levels of government must step up and lead by example if we’re going to save the Brisbane CBD, which has been left a ghost town by Covid lockdowns, writes Jumbo Thai owner Andrew Park. VOTE IN OUR POLL
Thousands of families are set for freedom after being caught up in the South East Queensland Delta cluster. This is the inside story on Covid’s rapid spread across Brisbane’s western suburbs.
The tough 14-day home quarantine for Indooroopilly State High School students finally came to an end today.
Vaccination is the key to regaining our freedoms and preventing deaths. Those who refuse to get the jab may one day regret their idiocy but by then it will be too late, writes Kylie Lang.
The impact of COVID-19 on our international borders means many more Queenslanders are rekindling their love for the state’s forests, waterways and beaches.
Leaders across Australia are nervous about NSW’s ability to control its Delta outbreak with more than 12 million Australians now living under lockdown restrictions.
Queensland has recorded eight new cases of Covid-19, seven of them tied to the schools cluster and picked up in home quarantine. It comes as the Premier seeks answers from NSW about plans to contain the state’s growing outbreak.
The founder of a Brisbane construction firm devastated by Covid-19 has high hopes his business can repay $1m owing to creditors.
A major $600 million deal to support coronavirus-ravaged Queensland businesses and sole traders has been struck between the federal and state governments. Here’s what it means for those affected.
Some resemble ghost towns, others are just scraping by, but a select few are still somehow thriving. Here, southeast Queensland retailers from Ascot to Ipswich reveal the true impact of the snap Covid-19 lockdowns.
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