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Anyone who has been in Victoria on or since December 21 has been urged to get a COVID test immediately and then quarantine after contacts of Victorian cases were found in Queensland.
Fears of another tourism collapse after southern outbreak Nervous southerners are cancelling Queensland holidays in droves, but there has been an unexpected silver lining for the state’s battered tourism industry. News by Jeremy Pierce Premium Content Subscriber only ANXIOUS interstate travellers are cancelling Sunshine State holidays in droves, but Queenslanders are stepping into the void to help save the battered tourism industry from a new wave of despair. With Sydney's five million citizens already barred from Queensland, fears are mounting tha...
Camp Hill Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke was on the morning school run with her three children, Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4 and three-year-old Trey, when her ex-husband flung open her car door and jumped inside. Hannah Clarke with her children Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey. Rowan Baxter threatened the terrified mother with a knife and told her to drive. But soon after, he doused her and the children with petrol and set them all on fire. The children burned to death strapped into their child seats. Frantic onlookers tried to douse Hannah with water while Baxter screamed at them to let his family bu...
News by Vanessa Marsh Premium Content Subscriber only The cogs of justice had to keep spinning throughout the worst of the coronavirus restrictions and courts adapted in 2020, ramping up video and telephone appearances for lawyers and defendants and turning to judge alone trials when a jury was not possible. Thousands of cases came before the court this year from the tragic to the peculiar and the scandalous. These were some of the biggest court cases this year: HEIDI STRBAK RELEASED Tyrell Cobb. Justice David Boddice ordered that Heidi Strbak's be sent...
Entertainment by Karlie Rutherford Premium Content Subscriber only People might have been locked indoors for much of 2020, but that doesn't mean that things were less dramatic in celeb land. While the year might have been a tumultuous one for so many, there were certain celebrities who couldn't keep their names out of the headlines. COVID CONSPIRACY THEORIST PETE EVANS Pete Evans spruiking the BioCharger. Perhaps the biggest of those was Pete Evans. Paleo Pete became Covid Crazy Pete in 2020. The former TV chef angered many he started to position hi...