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Lydia LynchQueensland Political Reporter

Lydia Lynch covers state and federal politics for The Australian in Queensland. She previously covered politics at Brisbane Times and has worked as a reporter at the North West Star in Mount Isa. She began her career at the Katherine Times in the Northern Territory.

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VIRUS BREACHNation

03/04/2018 Chris Tait, Chairman, Jeromy Young, CEO and James Cody, CFO of Melbourne video tech firm Atomos.Picture David Geraghty / The Australian.

Sydney group fined for superyacht trip

A CEO and crew who travelled to Queensland on a superyacht to watch the rugby have been hit with fines totalling $16,400.

Lydia Lynch

Politics

12-06-2021 Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young hold a media conference into lifting Covid-19 restrictions. PICTURE: Brad Fleet

NRL families to ‘break’ bubble

Hundreds of NRL officials, players and their families will be allowed to move to Queensland while people trying to see dying loved ones are caught up in exemption processes with no appeal.

Lydia Lynch

coronavirusNation

A survey by Lismore Council has unearthed problems created by Queensland's hard border closure.

States poised to slam shut borders

Queensland and Victoria are considering closing their borders to NSW as the state’s Covid-19 outbreak grows.

Lydia Lynch

Politics

Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young talks to the media conference about the Covid update in Brisbane.Thursday July 8, 2021. Picture John Gass

Powers to stay unfettered for months after rollout

Extraordinary powers given to Queensland’s chief health officer to lockdown cities and close state borders without oversight will be extended until 2022.

Lydia Lynch

Politics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - JULY 6, 2021.Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick speaks during a media conference to provide a Covid update.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Woman fined over hotel quarantine escape act

A Sydney woman who scaled two balconies and kicked down a door to escape mandatory hotel quarantine will finish her two-week isolation at a North Queensland watch house.

Lydia Lynch

Women in parliamentPolitics

Queensland election. Seat of Redlands. Henry Pike (LNP). Polling Booth at Redland Bay community centre. Pic Mark Cranitch.

LNP branch chiefs quit in sexism vote row

Three senior branch members in a blue-ribbon Coalition seat have quit after a candidate with a history of sexist comments was chosen to replace dumped MP Andrew Laming.

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battle for BowmanNation

Libs preselect only man on hand

A five-way preselection race to replace dumped MP Andrew Laming at the next federal election has been decided.

Lydia Lynch

Preselection fightPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 11: Member for Bowman Andrew Laming during the Address of Condolence of the Death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on May 11, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will deliver the Morrison government's third budget has an increased focus on women, with almost $354 million in funding allocated for women's health. Treasurer Frydenberg also outlined more than $10 billion in spending on major infrastructure projects across Australia aimed to help create local jobs and boost productivity in the COVID-affected national economy. Aged care will receive more than $10 billion over the next four years, in direct response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

LNP tussle over Laming’s seat

Factional tensions within Queensland’s LNP will reignite at a tightly-fought preselection contest later today.

Lydia Lynch

PandemicPolitics

A traffic control worker looks on in Brisbane on June 30, 2021, as the city falls quiet from a lockdown with Australia battling outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19. (Photo by Patrick HAMILTON / AFP)

Mystery positives extend lockdown

Queensland’s top doctor is ‘hopeful’ Brisbane’s lockdown will lift on Saturday night after the mysterious infection of a Covid-positive mother and daughter extended stay-at-home orders.

Lydia Lynch

LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Lockdowns out, flights cut: PM’s virus exit deal

As lockdowns end in WA and the NT, and extend in Qld, PM announces they will become a measure of last resort under national cabinet’s four phase pathway out of pandemic.

Jess Malcolm and Lydia Lynch

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