Queenslanders have been warned they may need further Covid booster shots by the end of the year, with some hospitals suspending services as the latest wave decimates the state’s health workforce.

The health and wellbeing of Australians will become part of the success yard stick of the federal budget alongside GDP and debt for the first time, under a revolutionary New Zealand-style plan to track policy outcomes on how much our lives are improving. 

Regional Queensland has shunned Annastacia Palaszczuk and her government on a range of issues, sounding a blistering warning about the Premier’s popularity. 

Nick Kyrgios says he isn’t going to be distracted from his goal of winning Wimbledon even after it was revealed he has been summonsed to an Australian court over an alleged assault. 

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