QLD students will resume classes two weeks later than scheduled in a desperate bid to manage an expected peak of Omicron cases. Critical essential workers will be allowed out of quarantine to go to work to keep the state moving. Council crews have battled into the night in a desperate fight to save the Maryborough CBD from inundation. A push by a group of Queenslanders to introduce laws banning criminals from playing professional sport has failed. 
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