Stories about Covid-19 hotel quarantine.
The Premier defence of her government’s decision to spend $223m on the Wellcamp quarantine facility has been slammed by the Opposition. It comes as a report criticised the state’s failure to consider all other options.
Incoming Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has been urged to review the case of a Gold Coast woman still being pursued for payment after a ‘nightmare’ quarantine experience. This is her story.
A war of words has broken out over the state government’s massive spend on external consultants while the public service faces job cuts.
A public servant who boasted about the success of the botched Hotel Quarantine program — which led to 801 deaths — has scored a plum new gig.
Tens of millions of dollars in hotel quarantine fees remained unpaid and are at risk of never being paid, with taxpayers potentially left to pick up the tab.
It’s been a long road, but some significant milestones – including a big day at Brisbane Airport and major hotels reopening to travellers after hotel quarantine – have tourism leaders confident the industry has finally turned the corner.
Alyssa Healy described Australia’s practice game against New Zealand as a ‘bloodbath’. Where has the loss left the Aussies ahead of the World Cup?
A young Covid-positive man fled hotel quarantine — putting the community at risk of a super spreader event — during a wild crime spree across Albury.
It is about to get easier for Aussies to travel to Bali, with hopes the major rule change will generate a tourism boom.
Hotel quarantine was a terrible time for most people that went through it during the Covid pandemic – but one hotel in the US has taken a different approach.
A NSW man who escaped hotel quarantine and plunged southern Tasmania into lockdown showed a “complete, repeated and consistent disregard for the law”, a Hobart judge has said.
The Palaszczuk Government has finally revealed the cost to the taxpayer of the Wellcamp quarantine facility in Toowoomba after previously saying it was commercial in confidence, but the eight-figure sum is understood to be just a fraction of the cost for the entire project.
“By the time the applicant found himself in quarantine for that time … he was one of the most well-known and universally disliked people in Tasmania.”
Spending 10 days in quarantine wasn’t ideal World Cup preparation but that could be about to change.
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