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Visitors to two Sunshine Coast gyms have been ordered to quarantine at home for 14 days as Queensland Health updated its contact tracing list with 23 new incidents. The updated list includes several gyms, with Plus Fitness Minyama and KCF training Birtinya venues deemed "close contacts". The state recorded eight new cases today, with seven acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine. A list of casual contacts and historical casual contacts have been updated with an additional 10 sites each. CLOSE CONTACTS Anyone who visited the following locations during the specified times must ...

Ten of thousands of Sydneysiders have gridlocked roads out of the city on Good Friday for the Easter long weekend - sparking fears undetected Covid cases could be spread across the state.  Restrictions are in place for Byron Bay and surrounding areas - one of the most popular holiday spots in the state - after a series of cases were linked to a hen's party at a pub in the north coast town. On Friday, hundreds of cars were filmed bumper to bumper choking the M1 Motorway north from Sydney as holidaymakers left for long weekend getaways.  The M1 out of Sydney on Friday afternoon was bumper to ...

Queensland has recorded just one local case of Covid-19 on Thursday as Brisbane's snap three-day lockdown is lifted hours before the Easter holiday weekend begins. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said 10 cases were recorded state-wide overnight, but all but one of them were found in hotel quarantine.   The one local case went to the same bachelorette party in Byron Bay as a nurse who was infected with coronavirus while working in the Covid-19 ward at Brisbane's Princes Alexandra Hospital. Ms Palaszczuk said restaurants and cafes in the city can fully re-open as of 12pm on Thursday, but custom...

MasterChef judge almost quit cooking When the shine of his MasterChef win wore off, former sparky turned judge Andy Allen almost packed it in and returned to the tools. Entertainment by Dan Stock Premium Content Andy Allen knows he's a pretty blessed bloke. Not just because he entered a cooking competition called MasterChef almost a decade ago as an apprentice sparky and not only ended up winning it, but he returned to the show last year as a permanent judge. And not because in the interim he wrote a cookbook (The Next Element) made some TV (Farm to...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Northern Rivers' best produce and culinary experiences will be in the spotlight in a new food series starring the trio of chefs behind NSW-born restaurants Three Blue Ducks. The program, which takes its name from the highly acclaimed restaurants, will air on Network Ten from Saturday, February 13 for six weeks. It features chefs Andy Allen (MasterChef Australia), Darren Robertson and Mark Labrooy road tripping across NSW and Australia in the name of menu research. Supported by the NSW Government's tourism and major events agency Destination NSW, the ser...