Annastacia Palaszczuk has warned the highly contagious UK COVID strain is ‘circulating in hotel corridors’ and has asked the Federal Government for help.
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Queensland’s acting Premier has pointed to migration data showing a surge in new residents as an endorsement of the state’s pandemic response as he hit out at the Prime Minister’s handling of his own party room.
Interstate migration data, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week, revealed Queensland gained the most new residents during the September quarter while NSW and Victoria went backwards.
Acting Premier Steven Miles.
An extra 7200 people moved to Queensland at the same time 4100 people left NSW.
Brisbane gained 3200 people through net internal migration, the most of any capital city, while Sydney, with 7800, lost the most.
Kristina Keneally exposed ‘just how low’ politics can go03/02/2021|4min
Shadow home affairs minister Kristina Keneally shows how low Labor is willing to go in its “desperate” attempt to change the subject away from its own political woes, according to Sky News host Paul Murray.
“Labor is getting desperate and they’re getting desperate to put any slur whatsoever to change the subject in Canberra from their woes,” he said.
Mr Murray said the shadow home affairs minister’s comments “exposes just how low politics can go”.
Ms Keneally told Sky News on Wednesday despite ASIO being “upfront with the community” on the severity of right wing extremism, the prime minister and Peter Dutton have “downplayed, dismissed, and sought to ignore this great national security threat”.
HOW refreshing it is to see common sense at last in the debate about youth crime in Queensland. The people of Queensland are crying out for real action to be taken on youth crime, not just the usual platitudes around election time. These actions must start at the cradle with well-trained and experienced child safety officers supported by the police and the courts. Children growing up in an abusive environment will turn to crime and so the cycle repeats itself. If necessary, children should be removed from abusive or drug-fuelled environments. Children are our future and sadly we are failing to give these young people the necessary assistance to create a good life for the future.