Here we are at the Gold Coast s Paradise Point Bowls Club, home of the mighty Dolphins and Monday night s famous Parmimania where the chicken parmi comes in five different flavours - Classic, Hawaiian, The Stockman, Mexican and Meat Lovers. It s the sort of watering hole that once peppered our towns; a place that smells like beer and friendship, where the meat trays are raffled, the drinks are ice-cold, and the bar staff have masters degrees in banter. And here, at a long table beside the bar is Queensland s newest State Opposition leader, David Crisafulli, 41, telling a story to a pod of Dolphin players sitting around it, pots of amber gold in hand.
Here we are at the Gold Coast s Paradise Point Bowls Club, home of the mighty Dolphins and Monday night s famous Parmimania where the chicken parmi comes in five different flavours - Classic, Hawaiian, The Stockman, Mexican and Meat Lovers. It s the sort of watering hole that once peppered our towns; a place that smells like beer and friendship, where the meat trays are raffled, the drinks are ice-cold, and the bar staff have masters degrees in banter. And here, at a long table beside the bar is Queensland s newest State Opposition leader, David Crisafulli, 41, telling a story to a pod of Dolphin players sitting around it, pots of amber gold in hand.
Eleanor de Jong
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern has cast serious doubt on whether the trans-Tasman bubble will go ahead in the first quarter of this year, telling reporters at her weekly press conference âthings have changedâ significantly since Australia abruptly closed its borders to New Zealand in January, following a small Covid-19 outbreak at a quarantine facility in Auckland.
âIn that instance, we didnât believe the border needed to be closed, and it was, and that had significant commercial implications.â
âOur expectation was that the border wouldnât close in that situation â and it did.â
Ardern said the sudden closure of the border has left New Zealand officials with âa lot of questionsâ over how the trans-Tasman bubble would function, and once the egg was scrambled â ie: the borders opened â they âcouldnât be unscrambledâ.
Kate Jones warns politicians not to overstay welcome
Politics by STEVEN WARDILL
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Subscriber only High-profile former Palaszczuk Government minister Kate Jones has a message for Queensland s current crop of politicians: Don t overstay your welcome. Look at my political career, I had highs and lows and I m definitely a stronger and more resilient person as a consequences of that, she told The Courier-Mail. But I also feel like when it s time to get out you should get out and give someone else a go. She d been touted as a future Labor leader after defeating Campbell Newman in 2015 after he d ousted her three years earlier.
End of blog for Tuesday
What a busy afternoon. That is where we will wrap up the live blog for Tuesday. We will be back with you again tomorrow for all the latest news but hereâs what you might have missed from today:
Victoria recorded
two new cases associated with the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne airport, with one worker and one former guest who left on Monday becoming infected with Covid-19. It is believed transmission occurred at the hotel, rather than the former guest being a day 16 infection, but investigations and contact tracing are under way.
New Zealand prime minister