Hopes of ending weeks of heartache for southern Gold Coast and Tweed region communities were upended on Saturday, with a new war of words over a proposal to move Covid checkpoints south.
Desperate to keep the growing Delta outbreak in NSW out of Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk requested 100 solders be deployed on the border between the states.
The health minister, Greg Hunt, is on the ABC right now talking vaccines. Heâs asked why the vaccine wonât be distributed before March, if âwe are on track and ahead of scheduleâ, as Hunt says. It is important to have the assessment and there are three big parts to this. There is the assessment, which relies on the data from the vaccine companies. There is the production, which relies on them being on schedule. And then there is the shipping and distribution. All of those are on track. And weâre ahead of schedule. But our whole approach has been to