Barring unthinkable tragedy,Queenslanders are enjoying their last-ever Queen’s Birthday long weekend.
Grace Tame answers some quick questions with The Good Weekend about her taste in music,favourite film,friendship with John Cleese and what she might wear to her wedding.
Questions about plans for the $1 billion stadium rebuild,and the parallel future of a heritage-listed inner-city primary school,have boiled over during state budget estimates.
Unvaccinated Queensland teachers will be able to return to work next Thursday,but their QPS counterparts won’t be so lucky.
Workers subject to sexual,and sex- or gender-based harassment,would also be better protected under a proposed revamp of the state’s industrial relations landscape.
The Queensland government has moved to strengthen its punitive powers over casino operators,including fines of up to $50 million,ahead of scandal-plagued Star Entertainment’s new Brisbane casino’s planned opening next year.
Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said the state was now well into its second Omicron wave with the number of infections increasing by 54 per cent in the past two weeks.
While the Queensland government had initially referred the matter for a review,it was unclear whether it was still investigating the college despite the contract being withdrawn and the principal stepping down.
The Queensland Police Service ordered all its employees to have a second dose of a vaccine by December 17. Many said no.
Experts have predicted Queensland will report up to 12,000 cases by January 5.
Education officials will not have final numbers on how many state school teachers are vaccinated until after January 7.