It’s despite Victoria’s higher population and Covid lockdowns. 

More Queenslanders are on unemployment benefits than before the pandemic kicked off as well, despite the state’s jobless rate having fallen from 5.7 per cent to 4 per cent in that time. 

Parents are being told to make their children wear a mask at school amid warnings the state’s third Covid wave could take another four weeks to peak if Queenslanders don’t “take control”. 

A court has heard A Brisbane man charged with attempted murder waited at least 30 minutes to call Triple-0 following a “violent” altercation with his former housemate, who had to be placed into an induced coma for two weeks 

Gale-force winds and 4m swells are expected to lash parts of the Queensland coast today, caused by a developing low off the Fraser Coast.  

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