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  THE Gold Coast's  top cop has hit back at dishonest locals claiming they are stranded and unsafe due to border blocks at smaller crossings, saying police cannot accommodate every whim. It comes as Mudgeeraba resident Keith Douglas slammed a hard closure to Numinbah at Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd, claiming emergency vehicles could not pass and it was being unmanned by police. Once-Gold Coast Council candidate Keith Douglas with his bull Rambo. Picture: supplied. The same closure was in place in March. Mr Douglas said: "Enough is enough. This is one of many problems affecting Gold Coa...

GOLD Coast coronavirus testing clinics are so overstretched sick people are fainting in the heat, being turned away or giving up after waiting six hours or more, residents claim. Currumbin resident Virginia Boniface waited from about 9am-4.30pm to be tested at Robina Hospital in "searing heat" on Tuesday after interacting with Sydney travellers. She applauded staff who did their best in trying times, but said testing needed "fine tuning". "None of us knew it would be that long," she said. "There was a few who fainted, older people. "I am quite sunburnt, but it could have been a lot worse...

  THE Gold Coast's  top cop has hit back at dishonest locals claiming they are stranded and unsafe due to border blocks at smaller crossings, saying police cannot accommodate every whim. It comes as Mudgeeraba resident Keith Douglas slammed a hard closure to Numinbah at Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd, claiming emergency vehicles could not pass and it was being unmanned by police. Once-Gold Coast Council candidate Keith Douglas with his bull Rambo. Picture: supplied. The same closure was in place in March. Mr Douglas said: "Enough is enough. This is one of many problems affecting Gold Coa...

QUEENSLAND'S health workers are stressed and burned out, with two in five in the state's largest hospital saying their health has suffered in the past year as they've worked through the COVID pandemic. The latest Working for Queensland survey has revealed the true feelings of nearly 27,000 Queensland Health staff members and shows the state's most stressed workers are at the largest Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Metro North, in Wide Bay and in the state's Central West, around Longreach. In all three of those hospital and health services, between two in five and one in two felt bur...