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Andrea MacleodSenior reporter

Andrea Macleod is a senior writer with three decades of experience working in news and magazines both home and abroad. She is part of the Quest Community Newspapers team and contributing books reviewer for Brisbane News.

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Police at Moreton Island Adventures Ferry Terminal in Port of Brisbane during Coronavirus restrictions, Thursday, April 9, 2020 - Picture: Richard Walker

Cops swarm in Easter getaway crackdown

Police have swarmed the Port of Brisbane today, turning away people heading off for an Easter island getaway. It comes as officers are set to hit the roads in droves across the state, picking up motorists ignoring COVID-19 ‘stay home’ restrictions.

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Police at Coles in New Farm as shelves are re-stocked. Picture: Andrea Macleod

Restocking fails to solve grim food shortages

Shoppers at a Brisbane Woolworths have been greeted with more empty shelves today despite mammoth overnight re-stocking efforts, with some necessities nowhere in sight as elderly customers left with empty trollies.

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Wendy Taniela with her 5 year old son Cyrus Taniela in a play ground in Upper Caboolture.The mother of a five-year-old boy with long hair says his Caboolture school, Australian Christian College Moreton, told them it had to be cut despite his hair cutting ceremony, which is part of his father’s Cook Islands and Niuean heritage, being still a year awayMonday February 10,2020. (AAP image, John Gass)

The school rule that may be racist

The state’s Human Rights Commission has warned that a southeast Queensland Christian school’s rule may constitute indirect racial discrimination, as a student’s family takes on the school administration over their young son’s hair.

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