One of Queensland’s largest builders is demanding tens of thousands of extra dollars from clients to complete their homes amid the deepening financial crisis in the construction sector. 

Queensland will consider whether to scrap isolation requirements for close contacts of Covid patients as southern states move to ease the strict rules from today. 

The PM has declared Australia is the target of China’s coercion because of his government’s strong stance, as Scott Morrison rejected claims Beijing’s security deal with the Solomon Islands has damaged our standing in the Pacific.

A senior Labor frontbencher has admitted the Morrison Government has not called for the cashless welfare card to be expanded to pensioners, despite Opposition leader Anthony Albanese refusing to drop its claims. 

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